Hunger: The Abarath Trilogy, Book Two

Every beast needs prey.

Something terrible had happened to the bleak mining island of Ostenharth. Along the shore, it reeked of the decomposing dead, echoed as the stranded dying wailed in pain. Only a few inhabitants remained, unaware of what was coming—not a single beast seeking the sweetbread of human brain, plump hearts and spongy lungs, but a new creature, with its mammalian pouch protecting its sweaty cluster of newborns.

As it crawled from the icy water, blood wept from its burn wounds, skin slid off its flanks, but still it salivated. Fibrous strings of spittle hung from its teeth, and those teeth chattered in anticipation of biting; the island’s few inhabitants needed to hide as quickly as they could.

The gruesome horror continues in Damian Dawes’s second novel in The ABARATH Trilogy. CONTENT WARNING - Hunger contains swearing, violent death scenes and depictions of animal suffering.