If you loved the movie Scream, you have never read anything like this.
From the isolated wheat fields of rural Montana comes the horror thriller that fans of slasher horror, masked killer movies, and survival suspense have been waiting for. SCREAM: Kill Radius: A Novel is the novel that takes everything you love about the Scream franchise and drives it deep into the dark heart of the American countryside where there are no neighbors, no signal, and absolutely nowhere to run.
Meet Zara Kade. Former military intelligence. Discharged. Broken. Running from a past she cannot prove and cannot escape. She moves to her grandmother's remote Montana farmhouse looking for silence.
What she finds is a ten mile killing ground that was already waiting for her.
Someone has been here for months. Measuring. Mapping. Marking. Planting orange surveyor's flags in the earth like stitches closing a wound. And when the bodies start appearing in the wheat fields with their mouths packed with grain and the clocks in the dead woman's house all stopped at 3:17 a.m., Zara understands that what is hunting Grayfield County is not random.
It is precise.
It is patient.
And it has known her name since before she arrived.
SCREAM: A Novel delivers everything that made the Scream horror franchise a cultural phenomenon and pushes it further into the darkness. The unknown killer who could be anyone. The small community where trust is the most dangerous thing you can offer. The survivor who is smarter than everyone expects and more damaged than anyone knows. The plot twists that reframe everything you thought you understood. The moments of pure horror that will make you check your locks at 2 a.m. and the cliffhangers that make putting this book down physically impossible.
This is not a story about a masked killer.
This is a story about a ten mile trap built by the most patient and precise mind you have ever encountered in fiction. About the wheat that stands in every direction without moving. About the radio that speaks in an empty room. About the flag that appears on your kitchen table in a locked house while you were outside finding a body.
About the moment you realize you were never hunting the killer.
The killer was always hunting you.
For fans of Stephen King's atmospheric rural dread, Thomas Harris's brilliant and terrifying antagonists, Gillian Flynn's betrayal laced character work, and the slasher horror mystery DNA of the Scream movie series, this is the novel that will own your nights until the final devastating page.
Nobody within ten miles is safe.
Not even you.
