Dan Retsler left Oregon for a reason. He never planned to return.

But something draws him to accept an interview for police chief in a small town near the Oregon Caves. After all, the caves call the mountains their home, not the coast, where Retsler still fights haunting memories of strange creatures.

He soon discovers that something lurks in the shadows of this mountain town, too. Something linked to deaths too strange to be normal.

Now, Retsler must investigate the type of crime he swore to leave behind—a crime that might decide his future once and for all.

“Shadow Side,” by World Fantasy Award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. The story is also available in ebook through various online retailers here and is included in the anthology Fiction River: Unnatural Worlds, which is available in ebook, and trade paperback here.

Shadow Side

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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