Some wounds never heal. Some monsters never die.On the eve of Colorado's statehood, Gideon Thorn follows a trail of blood back to where it all began. Decades ago, when he was just two years old, a savage beast-dismissed by some as a grizzly bear-tore through his family's homestead, leaving his parents and older brother butchered and Thorn himself marked by a white-streaked scar that never let him forget.Now, settlers are vanishing again. Families wiped out. Bodies devoured. Something has returned to the high country, and Thorn can no longer avoid the place where his life was shattered.Joined by his steadfast mentor Obi Magoro and intrepid newswoman Dinah Pilcher, Thorn must confront the nightmare that birthed his quest for truth-and find out whether the creature that shaped him is just a memory...or a living nightmare waiting in the pines.Hallowed Ground is a harrowing blend of personal reckoning, primal terror, and western mythos-where past and present collide in a final, bloodstained reckoning.