The Sovereign of the Soil Kindle Edition

The Sovereign of the Soil"I need to find out what happens when I’m the one holding the pen."Jalen is tired of playing a role. To his parents, he is a future business graduate at Ohio State; to the world, he is a son following a pre-written script. Desperate for mental clarity and a story of his own, he leaves everything behind in the dead of night, heading south into the dense, unmapped shadows of the Wayne National Forest.But the woods have their own stories—and they are written in blood.After a brutal encounter with a black bear leaves him scarred and holding a grisly trophy, Jalen joins a group of hikers led by the charismatic and overconfident Mark. When they discover a "lost" surveyor’s map from 1964, they are lured off the managed trails and into a valley that time—and the map-makers—tried to forget.In the hollows, they are hunted by a Skin-walker: a pale, needle-fingered nightmare that mimics the voices of the loved ones they left behind. As his companions are picked off one by one, Jalen realizes the forest isn't the only monster. Faced with a betrayal more jagged than any claw, Jalen must make a choice: die as a character in someone else’s tragedy, or become something the woods themselves will fear.Outside a town in Wayne National Forrest, the salt line marks the boundary between man and beast. But for Jalen, the line has already been crossed. Read more