Lights out. Keep still. Pray for morning. Joule and Cage Mazur feel like prisoners in their home. With something new stalking the streets at night, their family’s only protection is bolting the door and embracing the darkness. And even though they manage to trap and kill one of the monsters, their locks won’t hold forever… Dealing with rising panic and rage in the neighborhood, the free-spirited survivors hatch a plan to undermine the killers. But with the night hunters picking off everyone they can, Joule and Cage know time is ticking toward humanity’s extinction. Can they kill the Night Hunters and reclaim the top of the food chain? The Hunted is the first book in the fast-paced Black Carbon apocalyptic thriller series by a USA Today bestselling author. If you like resourceful heroes, world-ending catastrophes, and breathtaking action, you’ll love AJ Scudiere’s spine-tingling novel. Buy The Hunted to battle the savage onslaught today! In A.J. Scudiere's Black Carbon series, hard science and speculative fiction overlap in a plausible dystopian future where the climate has gone off the rails and humans are no longer the most dangerous predator. Sibling protagonists Joule and Cage are left with only their intelligence and the families they build around them to survive the apocalypse. Scudiere owes me a few hours of sleep and I'll never look at an open curtain after sunset or a puddle in the yard without a shiver again. --Victoria Raschke, author Voices of the Dead series "After having read three of her books, I'd say she's in the top five of my best writers list. I have a list of King, Grisham, Koontz...you know, those guys. They are the authors you know will deliver." -The Lit Critic "An excellent mystery with some very, very surprising twists." -Bookworks "An action packed thriller. Highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review. Amazon readers say: " She is on a par with Andrea Norton, Marilyn Zimmerman Bradley, Lois McMaster Bujold." "...right up there with the best of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov."