‘Narrator Henry Leyva keeps listeners in the advantage of their chairs with his delivery of a story with an increase of murder suspects than Maine offers pine trees…That is an excellent, chilling story and performance.’ – AudioFile Journal around the Precipice

‘[Henry Leyva’s] understated performance makes even small character types’ motives and personalities believable… Leyva and Doiron certainly are a great mixture offering a fast-paced thrill trip with this tenth secret in the series.’ – AudioFile Magazine on Almost about Almost Midnight: A Book Midnight

Within this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron’s bestselling series, a deadly attack using one of Maine’s last wild wolves qualified prospects Game Warden Mike Bowditch to a straight bigger criminal conspiracy.

While on holiday, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy desires him to research a new female prison safeguard with a inexplicable past, and Mike feels honor-bound to help his friend. But when the guard becomes the sufferer inside a brutal attack at the jail, he realizes there could be a darker cover-up at play-and that Billy and his family might be at risk.

Then Mike receives a second call for help, this time from a distant mountain valley where Darkness, a wolf-hybrid he once cared for, continues to be found shot simply by an arrow and clinging alive. He looks for the identity of the bowman, but his analysis is clogged at every switch by the increasingly hostile community. And when Billy’s wife and kids are threatened, Mike finds himself examined like never before. How can he possibly keep the family secure when he provides enemies of his own on his path?

Torn between loyalties, Mike Bowditch need to respond in the only path he knows how: by bending every law and breaking every guideline to hold his family members safe and the real predators at bay.