Inspired by a true story of murder and cannibalism!
“Spins the truth into a horrific masterpiece… If you love historical stories that delve into far more than just silly jump scares and gratuitous gore, this book is for you.”
—Gord Rollo, Author of The Jigsaw Man and Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
After an unforgiving winter in 1879, revelation enters the town of St. Albert in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Swift Runner, a respected Cree trapper and former guide for the Northwest Mounted Police out of Fort Saskatchewan, is arrested for the unthinkable: the murder and consumption of his entire family. He denies the charges of cold-blooded killing, claiming his family starved in the bitter winter and he only resorted to cannibalism after they perished.
But while awaiting justice, he speaks of an ancient terror—he claims to be possessed by the wihitikow, the windigo spirit.
Dismissing tales of supernatural possession as frontier madness, the NWMP launches a treacherous expedition north toward Athabasca Landing to locate Swift Runner’s death camp and uncover the forensic truth. But as the Mounties push deeper into the unforgiving, isolated wilderness, a terrifying influence begins to take hold of the expedition.
They soon hear the shrieking of the windigo that is stalking them.
