As featured in The New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Issue Supernatural suspense at its
finest...The best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you.--The New York
Times Book Review Deeply deeply disturbing hard to put down not recommended reading after
dark.--Stephen King A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating
historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Evil is invisible and it is
everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the
wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations bitter quarrels and the mysterious
death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they
dream of what awaits them in the West long-buried secrets begin to emerge and dissent among
them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. They cannot seem to escape tragedy...or the
feelings that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it's a curse from the beautiful
Tamsen Donner (who some think might be a witch) their ill-advised choice of route through
uncharted terrain or just plain bad luck the ninety men women and children of the Donner
Party are heading into one of one of the deadliest and most disastrous Western adventures in
American history. As members of the group begin to disappear the survivors start to wonder if
there really is something disturbing and hungry waiting for them in the mountains...and
whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all
along. Effortlessly combining the supernatural and the historical The Hunger is an eerie
thrilling look at the volatility of human nature pushed to its breaking point.
