Once, North Hill was the commercial and social center of Piketon, a growing city in the Rocky Mountains. Now it's a place of boarded-up stores and roaming gangs.

But even-deadlier predators have arrived . . .

Local residents have been disappearing for weeks, and the city's political elite blame wild dogs. But a local zoologist suspects another cause--mutated bears, small in size but intelligent and immensely strong, that have come down from the mountains and hunt in packs. Deaths mount until the final bloody confrontation between man and beast.

"Lots of gore, a nicely controlled pace." - Kirkus Reviews

"Believably frightening." -Rocky Mountain News