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Who's Out There
Inside Marburg State Park lies the remains of Camp Southwoods, where four counselors were slain twenty-six years ago. Their murderer, Douglas Lee Carver, has become a local boogieman with a chilling nursery rhyme attributed to his name. Locals believe the now-abandoned camp is haunted.
Ranger Colt Mitcham, leader of the Ranger Rescue Unit for Marburg State Park, has no time for ghost stories. He has real-world problems to worry about - the person vandalizing the grounds, a local man who's disappeared inside the park, and making sure his team secures the park before the rapidly approaching blizzard unleashes hell across the land.
But when a member of Colt’s team is found murdered, Colt begins to wonder if the tales about Camp Southwoods are true. Has Carver returned? Or is someone else out there? Someone with an axe to grind against Colt and his team, hoping to use the urban legends as a cover for their crimes and keep what really happened at Camp Southwoods three decades ago from being exposed.
Ranger Colt Mitcham, leader of the Ranger Rescue Unit for Marburg State Park, has no time for ghost stories. He has real-world problems to worry about - the person vandalizing the grounds, a local man who's disappeared inside the park, and making sure his team secures the park before the rapidly approaching blizzard unleashes hell across the land.
But when a member of Colt’s team is found murdered, Colt begins to wonder if the tales about Camp Southwoods are true. Has Carver returned? Or is someone else out there? Someone with an axe to grind against Colt and his team, hoping to use the urban legends as a cover for their crimes and keep what really happened at Camp Southwoods three decades ago from being exposed.
Published: February 19, 2026
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-1958370322
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Carina P.
Mar 14, 2026
This was my first book by Westley Smith and damn, he pulled me in so hard I’m now committed to reading his entire library.
"Who’s Out There" didn’t just entertain me; it got under my skin. The isolation, the pounding weather, the creeping sense that something is moving through the dark… I felt every bit of it. Westley traps his characters and the reader in a storm so vicious it feels alive, then drops the a kįļler into the dark with them.
Westley sets the backdrop so vividly that I could picture every scene. The storm isn’t just weather—it’s a living, breathing threat, and he uses it to crank the tension until it’s almost unbearable. I could see the snow, feel the cold, and hear the wind clawing at the walls, fantastic!!
Onto the paranoia; it's delicious. I was questioning every motive, every shadow, every relationship. Was the kîlłer someone they trusted? Or a stranger slipping through the chaos? Each chapter tightened the noose, and I found myself second‑guessing everyone right alongside the characters.
By the end, I was fully invested, fully stressed, and fully impressed. If you love thrillers that trap you and make you doubt every single person on the page, "Who’s Out There" absolutely delivers.