Blood on the Trailhead: (A Lost Grove Mystery, Book 3)

"A chilling, beautifully layered novel of mystery, folklore, and human fragility." - The Prairies Book ReviewWhen the mutilated body of a young boy is discovered in Devil's Cradle State Park, the people of Lost Grove search for something to blame. A wild animal, a tragic accident...Anything but the truth.Chief Seth Wolfe knows better. Just months earlier, he'd stood over another body bearing the same impossible wounds-and the investigation had uncovered far more questions than answers.Then the glyphs appear. Burned into ancient redwoods, the symbols match those documented by an Indigenous researcher who disappeared years before. When another local teenager vanishes, the stories everyone grew up hearing begin to feel terrifyingly real.As old legends refuse to stay buried, Lost Grove begins turning on itself. With the county fair looming and fear spreading through the town, Seth must confront a truth Lost Grove has spent generations trying to forget.In Lost Grove, every legend begins with the truth.