A genre-crossing novel, part western, part horror.

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Daniel Paradine wants to get his wife and son across the American prairie of 1803 to the Oregon Territory, where he has been promised a job as a schoolteacher and librarian. When their wagon train's scout proposes a detour, and the wagon train gets trapped in a unnaturally dark and frozen valley, they become the playthings of a creature the Indians call Chayatocha. Soon Daniel's intellectual dismissal of the Bible is put to the test and found faulty, as he matches wits with a monster inhabited by a legion of unholy spirits. If reason fails, will faith save Daniel and his precious family? Shane Johnson has made a believer out of me — Christian horror is not an oxymoron. This well-crafted and truly spine-tingling adventure will please readers and challenge and deepen their faith.
— Jill Nelson (Nov. 2003)