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Warning Signs

You can look for danger. And danger can look for you. 
 
There’s something out there in the darkness. 
By morning, bones lie in the snow, picked clean. 
 
Zach knows the moods of the mountains – his mother taught him before she was gone. His father and the other men on the ski weekend think they know better though. 
 
Drinking and boasting, they laugh in the face of the icy conditions. 
 
But Zach understands what danger looks like. Can he survive the wilderness, and all the monsters within it?

Wow, Tracy Sierra has done it again – knife-edge tension and a perfect denouement. Absolutely outstanding

Sierra's sharp, evocative writing builds a tension so taut that it had me holding my breath

Tracy Sierra combines the forces of nature with the evil that men do to write an extraordinary double-whammy of a novel

What a novel! Warning Signs ticks every box for an attention-commanding thriller. Buy it, lock your doors and shut off your phone

Sierra’s ability to seamlessly fuse a constant thrum of unseen, impending doom, with an aching tenderness that will break your heart is unparalleled

An isolated setting and a pulse-pounding fight for survival combine to make Warning Signs a truly stunning novel

The best thriller I have read in a long, long time...atmospheric, full of heart and so nail-bitingly suspenseful that it had me at the edge of my seat from page one

A taut survival thriller with heart . . . Sierra cranks the tension up, up, up before launching us into a pulse-pounding life-or-death chase

As breathtaking as an avalanche, Tracy Sierra’s Warning Signs is a perfect mix of inner torment, warped masculinity, evil suspense, and the sublime

Terrifying, chilling and emotionally visceral...I found myself holding my breath

Warning Signs is a truly unputdownable novel

Nobody does tension and terror like Tracy Sierra

Fair warning to readers: once you start reading, you won’t want to stop

Tracy Sierra is a master of edge-of-your-seat suspense

Warning Signs is an atmospheric, pulse-pounding journey into the wilderness as well as into the human heart. The perfect, wintry thriller!

Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home complete with its own secret room. When not writing, she spends time with her husband and two children. Nightwatching is her debut novel.

There’s something out there in the darkness. 
By morning, bones lie in the snow, picked clean. 
 
Zach knows the moods of the mountains – his mother taught him before she was gone. His father and the other men on the ski weekend think they know better though. 
 
Drinking and boasting, they laugh in the face of the icy conditions. 
 
But Zach understands what danger looks like. Can he survive the wilderness, and all the monsters within it?

Tracy Sierra

Very few books are as sharp, clever and utterly terrifying as Nightwatching. Read at your own risk

I am trying to think of a book that has grabbed me by the throat more quickly’

A masterclass in tension and terror, it’s also a creative, thoughtful portrait of maternal fear and love

Acutely frightening and beautifully written . . . I can't remember rooting for a character quite so hard

Eerily atmospheric, pulse-pounding and unputdownable

I had no idea that a story could be both so beautifully written and so unbelievably terrifying

A terrifying descent into my deepest maternal fears . . . One of the most haunting, gripping novels I've read

You’ll want to gulp it down in one sitting, if you’re not too scared to turn the page! Everyone should read this book!

Fiercely feminist and viscerally terrifying

As grippingly suspenseful as the plot is, Sierra’s first outing boasts other strengths just as noteworthy, from its transportingly eerie setting to its indelible main character

So tense, so thought-provoking. I felt my heart rate rising as I read it . . . The definition of can’t-put-down’

An extraordinary book with a unique voice which caught me from the first line

Triumphs in a gripping and convincing finale

One of the most terrifying - and brilliant - thrillers I have ever read

I barely breathed while reading this incredibly tense, chilling thriller

A chilling tale you may want to read during daylight hours

Almost unbearably tense, suffused with fear without ever exploiting it

Among the best debuts I’ve read in years

There was someone in the house. 
 
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then she hears a noise - old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs . . . 
 
In that split second, she has three choices. Should she hide? Should she run? Or should she fight?

Tracy Sierra

Praise for Nightwatching

Very few books are as sharp, clever and utterly terrifying as Nightwatching. Read at your own risk

I am trying to think of a book that has grabbed me by the throat more quickly’

A masterclass in tension and terror, it’s also a creative, thoughtful portrait of maternal fear and love

Very few books are as sharp, clever and utterly terrifying as Nightwatching. Read at your own risk

I am trying to think of a book that has grabbed me by the throat more quickly’

A masterclass in tension and terror, it’s also a creative, thoughtful portrait of maternal fear and love

Very few books are as sharp, clever and utterly terrifying as Nightwatching. Read at your own risk

I am trying to think of a book that has grabbed me by the throat more quickly’

A masterclass in tension and terror, it’s also a creative, thoughtful portrait of maternal fear and love

Books by Tracy Sierra

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‘As a writer, I can control scenarios that terrify me’: 21 Questions with Tracy Sierra

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