num_pages: 264
description: Eight miles of mystery. One night of terror.Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals. But the naturalist and wilderness survival expert doesn’t believe in monsters. Not even when a tourist on his boat sees a strange creature in the tidal channel and captures it on video.When Adam moves into a controversial housing development next to the marsh, shocking new evidence emerges, and it’s not long before he’s confronted with a series of horrifying and unexplained events.It takes Christina, his feisty new neighbor, to get him to believe something lurks in the slough. Something disturbed by the new community.When a massive storm maroons the residents, Adam and Christina find themselves trapped and tested in a fight for their lives.
language: English
title: The Devil's Shallows
publisher: Second Rodeo Books