Alan Orloff has published fourteen novels and more than sixty short stories. His work has won an Anthony, an Agatha, a Derringer, and two Thriller Awards. He lives and writes in South Florida, where the examples of hijinks are endless.
Evil lurks in these woods. So much evil.
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The creepy, isolated woods near Dark Springs, West Virginia, provide the perfect hideaway for those wishing to stay out of public view: a cult of young women led by a sexual predator and a compound of white supremacists training to foment anarchy.
Also hidden in the hills is a more insidious threat: a government-contractor lab owned by eccentric mega-billionaire Morocco Maru. What started out as a proof-of-concept demo for the Defense Department has morphed into a renegade attempt to change the course of evolution by grafting animal body parts together to create superspecies.
Cult rescue specialists Tag Garrett and his girlfriend Ky Jones arrive to save a cult member, but their mission becomes clear quickly: they must rescue all of the women in the cult, destroy White Patriot Nation, and take down one of the richest and most powerful man in the world while neutralizing his menagerie of freakish creatures.
Only Tag and Ky stand in his way.
After his mother dies, Jake Wheeler returns to his birthplace of Dark Springs, West Virginia, seeking solace among his kin. But his family’s unique comfort food includes some ingredients Jake's not sure he can stomach.
They eat dead people.
Discovering that skeleton in the pantry and adjusting to a new diet turn out to be the least of Jake’s worries. Storm clouds have gathered over Dark Springs, threatening the family’s peaceful existence. Ax-wielding clan patriarch Dallas Pike and his band of renegade followers have decided upon a violent plan to increase the dwindling food supply. Why wait for your next meal to die naturally if you can hunt it down instead?
With the survival of the entire clan at stake, Jake wages war against madman Pike.
He also battles an even more terrifying opponent.
Himself.
After all, Jake has THE TASTE.