A Cold Place for Dying by Kristopher Triana

It's Christmas Eve. Having lost his wife, Joe Whitaker is spending the day hunting deer with bow and arrow. Wanting to free himself from the everyday world, he even leaves his phone in his truck. But his peace is soon interrupted by Nicole, a frantic woman running barefoot through the snow. She claims she was kidnapped and managed to escape, but now, the man who imprisoned her is on her tail.

Joe wants to help Nicole, but when he comes across the man pursuing her, he's told Nicole is delusional. The man says he isn't Nicole's kidnapper—he’s her husband. As a snowstorm bares down, Joe finds himself in a deadly triangle with a mysterious man and a panicked woman, not knowing who to trust.

If he makes the wrong choice, it might just cost him his life.


A Cold Place for Dying is a dark thriller by multiple award-winning author Kristopher Triana, the man who brought us Gone to See the River Man and Full Brutal . It is a taut and terrifying tale that tests the morality of its reader, leaving you breathless as you try to stay warm.

“Kristopher Triana’s work is a volatile mixture of visceral noir and twistedly disturbing passion play that invades the reader’s psyche and exposes the raw and throbbing nerve hidden within. His prose is unapologetic and totally without restraint or mercy. There’s no denying it. Triana is the Master of Extreme Horror!” – Ronald Kelly, author of Fear, The Saga of Dead-Eye, and Southern Fried & Horrified.

"Triana's masterful, gripping storytelling will not let go." - Scream Magazine