Wade Rivers

Uncovering his hometown's dirty past might just get him killed... Wade Rivers has come back home to bury his mother and tend to his childhood home. The timing works out, as he recently ran his private investigation business into the ground. It almost seems fitting that life would spit him back out in the place he was raised. But the locals have polarizing thoughts about Wade. Some only know of the mistakes he made as a private investigator and see Wade as the failure he thinks himself to be. It doesn't help that his father was a miserable man that still haunts the town. But there is another side of the town that also knows about one single heroic moment from Wade's past. One such resident is the only surviving member of the town's wealthiest family...and he wants to play his part in delivering justice to a group of men who are involved in dark and sinister deeds. He hires Wade to look into it, knowing that the local police have their hands dirty. Wade accepts but quickly discovers there is more darkness to his hometown than he thought...and the deeper he digs, the more tainted he also becomes. This gritty tale of rural noir is the first book in the Wade Rivers trilogy...where secrets are buried deep and uncovering them could be deadly.

"Every back road has a secret...be mindful of the turns." After disrupting a small town's human trafficking involvement in THE NIGHT ROAD, Wade Rivers discovers that he has only just pulled the curtain back the slightest bit. The roots of the real problem extend deeper, not only out into several other states, but maybe even into Wade's own past. The events of THE NIGHT ROAD lead Wade on a search for a man even more ruthless than those he has already brought to light. And as he gets closer to the truth, he learns more about the depravity of mankind than he ever wanted to. Can Wade get to the bottom of the truth before a cabal of evil men can put an end to his search...and his life?

After nearly losing his life in an attempt to bring down a huge trafficking organization, Wade finds himself battered and bruised...but also obsessed with one name that has eluded him so far. It is a name that evokes terror and mystery, and has managed to stay hidden until now. Children weep at the sound of the name, and grown men become afraid. Despite the violence and horrors he has already faced, Wade knows he won't be able to rest until he has taken this final threat down. But the more he discovers about this enigmatic figure, Wade learns that some see this man as something more...as not a man at all, but a monster. But Wade doesn't believe in monsters. He's seen enough to know that the only real monsters are men who believe they are above the law. So in a last ditch effort to completely dismantle the evils of these men, Wade once again finds himself venturing into the dark woods not too far away from the place where he grew up. And this time he'll have to face not only his own past, but a man thought to be unstoppable and maybe even not of this world.