This was a great psychological ride into horror!

Jonesy and Lisa along with their dog Lad are living out in the backwoods of Alaska. Winter is upon them and they have stocked up on food to help them get through the winter. But what they don't know is that two people are getting ready to grace their doorstep and they are anything but good people.

They find a woman named "Laura" laying at their cabin when they come back from one of their hunting execusions. She doesn't talk much and she won't tell them much of nothing about herself. She finally lets them know that she left "Olin" out in the winter conditions. They end up finding "Olin" and bringing him back to the cabin.

When "Olin" finally wakes up, then that is when the crap hits the fan as Jonesy and Lisa start thinking that maybe they should have left "Olin" where they found him as the word "survive" takes on a whole new meaning for them.

The book starts out a little slow, but then picks up speed when the "guests" arrive. The terror then begins and doesn't end till the last chapter.

There are a lot of twists and turns along with some action that captivated my interest.

I couldn't put the book down the more I got into it and I stayed up till the wee hours of the morning wanting to finish it to see how it all ended. Four stars for this one.

(To David: Thanks for the ride into terror and thanks for keeping me awake to finish it! I learned to "survive" without sleeping to get to the end. lol) ( )