A lone survivor with a monstrous story to tell.Six mismatched lawmen trying to find the missing settlers.Can they succeed in their mission...or are they going to become the hunted?Kris Jensen is certain that he had seen it all as the deputy marshal and then the Marshal of a small town on the frontier, Mimosa. Outlaws, shootouts, stagecoach robberies, an angry mob determined to lynch an innocent because of the colour of his skin, none of it surprises him anymore. But when a call comes to seek out a convoy of missing homesteaders, something about it makes his skin crawl.As it turns out, there's one survivor: a six-year-old girl named Heather. And her story terrifies six grown men. While trying to reach the Organ Mountains, the settlers have wandered into Owl Canyon, a place even the fearless Apache avoid. And the ancient people they met there are hungry.To make matters worse, friendships are tested, while Adrian's past as a conman is catching up with him with the arrival of an old friend whose lust for gold may lead them to disaster.The sequel to The Hanging takes Kris and his friends on their scariest mission so far. Are they going to survive it, or is their friendship going to end up destroyed while the hungry devour them?
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