Isolated
ISOLATED
A Black Cedar Valley Thriller Series
Ten nights. Ten predators. Ten isolated places where help cannot arrive in time.
In the Isolated Series, danger doesn’t strike in crowded cities or busy streets. It waits where the roads end, where the valleys go quiet, and where the distance between neighbors can stretch for miles.
Out here, isolation is not peaceful.
In the most remote corners of the country, people live quiet lives surrounded by mountains, timber, ranchland, and long empty roads. The isolation brings peace, privacy… and a dangerous illusion of safety.
But sometimes the very thing that makes a place beautiful is the same thing that makes it vulnerable.
Distance.
Weather.
Darkness.
And the terrible reality that when something goes wrong, help may be hours away.
The Isolated Series explores what happens when ordinary people are forced to confront extraordinary danger in places where rescue cannot arrive in time. Each book drops readers into a different isolated setting—deep wilderness, snowbound valleys, remote farms, frozen roads, and forgotten structures where predators understand one simple truth:
Isolation makes people easier to hunt.
These are stories of survival, fear, and the fragile line between victim and protector. Men and women who never expected to face violence suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives when the systems they rely on—phones, roads, neighbors, emergency response—fail when they are needed most.
Storms close the roads.
Dark forests swallow sound.
Snow erases tracks.
And sometimes the most terrifying part of isolation is realizing that someone else has already figured out how to use it.
Across the series, readers will encounter:
- relentless psychological predators
- brutal survival situations
- rural landscapes that become deadly traps
- ordinary people forced into impossible decisions
- and moments of courage that change lives forever
Each story stands on its own, yet together they reveal a chilling truth about remote places:
- Sometimes the most dangerous thing in an isolated place is not the wilderness.
- It’s the person who understands it better than everyone else.
The Isolated Series Books
Book 1 – The Long Walk Home
A young woman’s quiet walk through a dark rural valley becomes a desperate fight for survival when she realizes someone has been following her for miles.
Book 2 – Blood in the Timber
Deep in the frozen wilderness, a professional guide discovers that the hunter stalking the forest isn’t after animals—it’s after people.
Book 3 – The Basement Man
When a woman disappears in a quiet town, the truth hidden beneath one house reveals a predator who has been watching his victims for years.
Book 4 – Whiteout
During a violent blizzard, a volunteer EMT trapped in a remote ranch house must keep the wounded alive while a predator outside studies how long they will survive.
Book 5 – The Fence Line
A simple property dispute between neighboring ranches turns deadly when someone begins using the long fence line as a hunting ground.
Book 6 – Black Ice Road
A remote mountain highway becomes a frozen trap when a chain of mysterious crashes reveals someone is turning the winter road into a killing ground.
Book 7 – The Grain Bin
A routine farm inspection turns into a nightmare when a man becomes trapped inside a towering grain bin and realizes someone sealed the hatch from the outside.
Book 8 – Deep Water
When a fishing trip on a quiet lake goes wrong, a group of strangers discovers the most dangerous thing in the water isn’t what lies beneath—it’s who is watching from shore.
Book 9 – The Dogs Knew
In a small rural community, the only ones who sense danger before anyone else are the farm dogs that begin howling every night at the same empty field.
Book 10 – The Last Fire
As a massive wildfire races through the valley, the evacuation reveals a terrifying truth—someone has been using the fire to hide something far worse.
Ten stories.
Ten isolated settings.
Ten nights where survival depends on decisions made in the dark.
The Truth About Isolation
In crowded places, danger can hide in the noise.
But in isolated places…
There is nowhere to run.
