Leeds

by Corey Phillips

A twisted game of redefining a hunter versus the hunted commences with an infamous creature that has terrorized a region for over 200 years. A broken combat veteran takes on the hunt for an elusive white deer after being torn away from his military duties and family. A PTSD diagnosis leads him into the darkest depths of the woods filled with solitude and his own internal turmoil. Until he survives an encounter with something thought to have only existed in legend. Armed with a vicious drug dog, the hardened Sheriff of a small town will stop at nothing to find his missing girl that has been gone for nearly a year now. The locals and his wife discredit him for viewing the many other children like his daughter as still being alive somehow, when most feel the children are already dead. Both men will take on their own hunt and risk all that remains for their humanity to end the thing that has tried to devastate them. The story will question which will become the stronger enemy, one’s own horrors that can follow them, or a real demon that only nightmares are made of. Welcome to the Pine Barrens

385 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 12, 2021

About the author

Corey Phillips was born and raised in Newport, TN, and graduated from Cosby High School in 2007. After 7 ½ years of active duty service in the U.S. Army, with two combat tours to Afghanistan, he moved on to study screenwriting at Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ. He then transferred and studied creative writing to graduate with a Bachelors of the Arts from Southern New Hampshire University, NH, in 2021. LEEDS serves as Corey’s debut novel.

Reviews

[Tammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can smell the hunt. Excellent edge of your seat monster horror. A keeper.

[Brandy Vanes brooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good book! Not what I anticipated, being about the Jersey Devil and what I heard growing up in NJ but Im here to tell you, this book was well worth the read and captivating