**E**very season in the hidden town of Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there's always something to worry about. While on a much-needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears a baby crying in the woods. The sound leads them to a tragic scene: a woman buried under the snow, murdered, a baby still alive in her arms. In Rockton, a town that doesn't let in anyone under the age of eighteen, Casey must take care of its youngest resident while solving another murder and finding out where the baby came from--and whether she's better off where she is. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Kelley Armstrong again delivers an engaging, tense thriller set in perhaps the most interesting town in all of contemporary crime fiction. This description comes from the publisher. *Alone in the Wild* is the fifth book in the Casey Duncan series, the first of which is *City of the Lost*.