The Wicked Cries Wolf

Book 3: Kyndall Family Thrillers

by McKenna Grey

Genres: Romantic Suspense; Thrillers; Romantic Suspense; romantic thriller

Synopsis

In the shadow of Alaska's Chugach Mountains, a darkness lurks and threatens a quiet coastal village in The Wicked Cries Wolf, the third book in the Kyndall Family Thriller series.

A woman desperate for solitude. A man with an enemy he can't see. A dangerous game neither wants to play.

International bestselling author Meaghan Ryers has gained wealth, success, and fame . . . and all she wants is to be left alone. When her sister suggests she escape to someplace quiet where no one will find her, Meaghan picks a spot on the map and heads for Alaska.

Sheriff Donovan Kyndall of Stewart's Crossing, Alaska, arrives at the scene of a car fire after receiving a mysterious call. He doesn't expect a woman from out of town to be at the scene, begging him to believe someone was killed. As clues into the fire emerge, Donovan has to ask himself how she's connected and how a caller knows details from his own tragic past.

As the truth is revealed, Donovan and Meaghan are entangled in a puzzle of lies, treachery, and clues they must decode if they are to survive.


The Kyndall Family Thriller series:
"Blade of Death" (prequel)
The Dragon's Staircase
Shadow of the Forgotten
The Wicked Cries Wolf

Release date: May 26, 2020

Publisher: Cambron Press

Print pages: 289

Sample

PROLOGUE

Fire snaked into his lungs. Suffocating. Debilitating. He couldn’t breathe, his body immobile. He clawed at the air, at the coarse rope binding his feet, at everything his hands managed to reach. Why were his hands free?

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Is this how someone feels when they burn?

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Helios promised him there would be consequences. It had only been one more fire, one more kill. He had craved it more than he feared Helios’s warning.

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One more mistake.

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Smoke curled upward from the flames, dancing up the walls in a seductive swirl of lights and sound. The crackling of gunshots echoed somewhere beyond the steel door.

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No chance of escape.

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He didn’t deserve to die this way. His scream lodged deep in his lungs, so deep it burned his insides. A round of hacking coughs escaped his scorched lips. He desperately wanted water or a beer. Yes, when he got out of this—if he made it—he’d down a whole six-pack of Bud Light and thank whatever powers that be for his salvation.

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I’ll be good. If you let me live, God, I’ll be good forever.

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Did he hear his name coming back to him from the darkness beyond the flames? Yes, but from where, exactly?

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Damian.

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It’s only in my head. No. No, no, no!

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He heard shouts, or was fear mocking him? He yanked at the ropes around his ankles and brought away flesh covered in his own blood. Why couldn’t he move?

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The door pounded. No, someone pounded on the door. The blaze caressed the floor around him, moving closer with a lover’s passion, inch by inch. He heard the loud crash this time and was certain someone stood on the other side of the door. A gust of air whooshed into the room and the fire found new life. It tormented him, licked his skin. A scream escaped, louder now because of the burn. Two strong bodies in masks lifted him away from the center of the inferno. His eyes remained opened, even as the sensation of floating carried him away from the chamber. He’d promised to be good and he would be. No man or woman or creature walking the earth could claim to be so good as he from this moment on and into forever.

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Darkness consumed his whispered thanks while a cacophony of sirens trumpeted his fall into oblivion.

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Excerpted from The Wicked Cries Wolf by McKenna Grey. Copyright © 2020 by McKenna Grey. Published by Cambron Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the author or publisher.