Shadow Sentinel

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When a flash flood seals off Tall Pines, Georgia, ex–Air Force investigator Archer Lucas is dropped into a nightmare. Locals whisper about the Wampus Cat. The truth is uglier: A secret research lab has turned the Appalachian woods into a live test range for gene-spliced predators.

Cut off by rising water and dirty politics, Archer’s only reliable ally is A.L.I.C.E., an off-grid AI with her own secrets. By dawn, the bodies will stack up unless Archer can expose the operation, outmaneuver a federal smokescreen, and survive the hunt.

Shadow Sentinel blends Michael Crichton’s scientific dread with Stephen King’s knife-edge tension: biotech gone feral, a town under siege, and an investigator who refuses to look away.