‘The Wild Inside is a unique love tale and a creepy horror book – think of the Brontë sisters and Stephen Ruler.’ -John Irving

A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this memorable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age story in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.

A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her times tracking pets and about The Crazy Inside: A Novel running with her dogs in the remote control forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe within this untamed land, Tracy still follows her past due mother’s guidelines: Under no circumstances Lose Sight of the home. Never Come Home with Dirty Hands. And, above all else, By no means Make a Person Bleed.

But these precautions aren’t enough to safeguard Tracy when a stranger attacks her in the woods and knocks her unconscious. The next day, she glimpses an eerily familiar guy emerge from the tree series, gravely hurt from a vicious blade wound-a wound from a hunting knife like the one she holds in her pocket. Was this the person who attacked her and did she almost eliminate him? With her memories of the events jumbled, Tracy can’t be sure.

Helping her pops deal with her mother’s death and plan the getting close to Iditarod, she does not have time to take into account what she may have done. Then a secret wanderer appears, looking for a job. Tracy senses that Jesse Goodwin is usually concealing something, but she can’t alert her father without explaining about the attack-or why she’s kept it to herself.

It soon turns into clear that something dangerous is certainly going on . just how Jesse offers wormed his method into the family members . . . the threatening face from the stranger inside a crowd . . . the boot-prints she discovers in the forest’s edge.

Her family is in trouble. Will uncovering the truth protect them-or is the threat closer than Tracy suspects?