Night Brood – Kobo eBook

At the Black River road depot, five workers are preparing to shut down for winter. Most of the buildings are already cold. The truck has to stay warm enough to start, and the last crew needs a place to sleep before heading south. Then Mina Kerr learns that a radiator is still running in a locker room no one has used for weeks.

Inside, ten abandoned boots face the heat. Something has grown inside each one, stretching the leather into the shape of a foot. When one of the boots is lifted, it presses back.

Mina cuts the heat. The things inside the boots begin to move.

The crew soon has an injured worker, a dwindling choice of rooms, and a service road that may be their only way out. Every place they keep warm enough for themselves gives the brood somewhere to go. And when Mina finds out what the young have been moving toward, the fight to get off the site becomes a fight to leave nothing alive in the cab with them.

Night Brood is a creature-horror novel set in the northern Ontario cold. The threat grows in familiar things that hold heat after the boiler goes quiet: a boot, a wall cavity, a truck waiting to take someone home.