SOMETHING’S OUT THERE (BOOK ONE OF The TREE LINE CASES): witnesses weren’t imagining it. They were describing a killer. (A Police Procedural Horror Novel)

For years, people saw him standing beyond their yards. Nobody believed them, until the bodies were found.When Detective Nora Vance arrives at a remote Pennsylvania home, she finds the kitchen door wide open and Laura Shaw missing. Laura's phone is still on the counter. Her car remains in the garage. There are no signs of forced entry.But Laura's eleven-year-old daughter insists she knows what happened.The man from the woods took her.Local stories call him the Tree Man, a tall figure with a pale face who watches isolated homes from beyond the reach of porch lights. Police have always dismissed the sightings as hunters, trespassers, frightened children, or rural folklore.Then Nora discovers that Laura was not the first person to report him.Across the Appalachian borderlands of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland, witnesses have described the same silent figure for years. His appearances coincide with unexplained break-ins, missing women, and murders that were never connected. Each jurisdiction investigated its own case. Nobody saw the pattern.Until now.As Nora reconstructs the watcher's movements, she realizes the sightings are not supernatural encounters. They are surveillance. The figure at the tree line has been studying homes, learning routines, and selecting victims.And now that Nora understands his method, he knows she is looking for him.SOMETHING'S OUT THERE is the chilling first book in THE TREE LINE CASES, a fast-paced police procedural horror series blending forensic investigation, Appalachian isolation, serial-killer suspense, and terrifyingly realistic crime.