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Cold as Hell

Book 3 of the Haven's Rock Series

by Kelley Armstrong

Haven’s Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that they’ve settled into their life here. As Casey nears the end of her pregnancy, she lets nothing, including her worried husband, stop her from investigating what happens in the forbidden forest outside the town of Haven’s Rock.

When one of the town's residents is drugged and wanders too close to the edge of town, she’s dragged into the woods kicking and screaming. She’s saved in the nick of time, but the women of the town are alarmed. Casey and Eric investigate the assault just as a snowstorm hits Haven’s Rock, covering the forest. It’s there they find a frozen body, naked in the snow. With mixed accounts of the woman's last movements, the two begin to question who they can trust―and who they can't―in their seemingly safe haven.

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Publisher: Minotaur Books

Date: 2025

ISBN: 9781250391650

Location: Haven's Rock, Yukon (Fictional)

Sub-genres: Detective Fiction , Suspense , Rural

About The Author

Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian novelist and #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her prolific works in fantasy, horror, crime, and young adult fiction. Debuting with Bitten in 2001, which launched the 13-book Women of the Otherworld series, she has since published over 70 novels, including the Cainsville, Rockton/Haven’s Rock, Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising, and Age of Legends series, as well as the time-travel mystery A Rip Through Time. Writing also as K.L. Armstrong, she co-authored the Blackwell Pages trilogy with Melissa Marr and created the middle-grade series A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying. Her work often blends supernatural elements with mystery, earning bestseller status and award nominations, while a TV adaptation of Bitten aired from 2014–2016.

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