Title: The Tempest
First published: 2002
Description: *The Thing in the Night* 
The untamed wilderness of the Rockies is a place of magnificent beauty ... and unimaginable dangers. Shakespeare McNair has seen many of these dangers over the years, but even he has a hard time imaginining the bizarre creature that's terroizing him and his wife, Blue Water Woman. It walks on two legs like a man, but has the strength of an animal. All Shakespeare has seen of it is its hideous shape, but he knows it's out there in the night, stalking and waiting. When the beast finally strikes, carrying off Blue Water Woman, Shakespeare vows to turn the tables and track it to its lair ... then show the creature some danger of his own. He knows that defeating this monster may not be humanly possible, but he'll fight any living thing - be it man, animal or devil - to rescue his beloved wife.
Subjects: Wilderness, myth, Rocky Mountains, Fiction, Frontier Fiction, Western
Places: Rocky Mountains
People: Shakespeare McNair
LC classification: CPB Box no. 1964 vol. 8