Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong

Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that’s what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there’s always something to worry about.
While on a much needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears a baby crying in the woods. The sound leads them to a tragic scene: a woman buried under the snow, murdered, a baby still alive in her arms… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Forced sex work, mentioned
- Sexual slavery, mentioned
- Recreational drug use
- Blood depiction
- Death and loss depiction
- Murder
- Gun violence
- Animal injury
- Animal death