BLOODLESS: A Creature Horror Novel

Something beneath Blackridge has been hungry for years.When Earl Pritchard finds one of his calves opened and drained beside a frozen trough, he knows no ordinary predator did it. The blood is gone. The body is wrong. And from inside his barn comes a clicking sound that should not belong to anything alive.By sunrise, Earl is dead too.His final message brings Cassidy Danner back to the town she swore she had escaped. Fourteen years ago, her brother Wade vanished near the abandoned Red Crown drilling site. The company claimed there were no open tunnels beneath the mountain. The sheriff’s department accepted it. The town moved on.Cassidy never did.Now Earl’s dying words suggest Wade was heard underground the night he disappeared. Worse, something from those sealed tunnels has come up to feed. Hairless gray creatures with hooked claws and blood-drinking mouths are spreading across farms, woods, and abandoned Red Crown land. They do not simply kill. They drain. They seed. And they obey something larger in the dark.With Sheriff Lucas Wynn at her side and Red Crown’s lies collapsing around them, Cassidy follows the trail beneath the mountain and discovers the truth is worse than death. Wade may still be alive, but what survived underground is no longer fully human. Kept in darkness, starved, changed, and used as part of Red Crown’s containment nightmare, her brother has become both prisoner and predator.To save him, Cassidy must enter the tunnels where the colony breeds, where stolen bodies are kept as reservoirs, and where every scream the town ignored has been waiting to come back.But the creatures are no longer staying below.They are climbing out.They are hungry.And once they taste your blood, they do not forget you.BLOODLESS is a brutal creature horror novel about family, corporate cover-ups, abandoned drilling tunnels, blood-drinking predators, and the terrifying cost of leaving someone behind in the dark. Read more