Ten Sleep

Summary

ON A SPINE-CHILLING CATTLE DRIVE, A YOUNG MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IS HAUNTED BY A HISTORY OF MURDER AND MONSTROUS BEASTS, IN THIS MODERN WESTERN HORROR …

When Greta Molina’s old friend Tiller offered her the job, a ten-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie to the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. A few long days on an ATV with 320 cows and calves, alongside two guys she’s known since college, will give her time to sort out the mess in her head. The canyon along the trail has a history, sure, but nature has a tendency toward violence. Greta can accept that, even if it makes her insides squirm.

What Greta doesn’t know is the legacy of murder and rot that runs deep into the rocks of this land. As each night passes on the prairie, the trio faces mounting supernatural dangers: a ghost train of the damned, wild animals walking alongside dead ones—and evidence of a gigantic creature in the skies, one that’s supposedly been extinct for eons. And Tiller may be hiding even darker secrets the further they go. Safety is only ten sleeps away, but Greta soon realizes that may be too long for all of them to survive.

Nicholas Belardes’s Ten Sleep is a fresh portrayal of the American West for fans of Catriona Ward, Victor LaValle and Jordan Peele’s Nope, by a rising star in horror.

“Rendered in elegant prose and with vivid characters, Ten Sleep is tense, atmospheric, and nightmare-inducing. Highly recommended.”—Richard Kadrey, New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series