The Thing in the Woods by Matthew W Quinn

Seventeen-year-old James Daly thought moving from Atlanta to small-town Edington senior year would kill him, but he didn’t mean it literally.

But his father bought a bigger house after a promotion at his law firm, only to lose his job when the housing bubble popped. Now James has to work at the Edington Best Buy to help pay their underwater mortgage. He can’t wait until he turns eighteen and can leave Edington forever.

But when a local boy challenges him to an ATV race near a tree farm most people avoid, things get worse. James’ rival is slaughtered by a tentacled horror emerging from a nearby pond. The monstrosity has been worshiped by a secretive coven since before the Civil War, and its devotees don’t like their secrets being threatened. Now with the aid of Amber Webb, a local girl he doesn’t like liking, and a renegade cult member, James must battle THE THING IN THE WOODS

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

James Daly thought he was safe at college after defeating small-town cultists and their otherworldly master. He was wrong. Although the Thing in the Woods is dead, there’s more to this world than just one monster.

James is now attending Georgia State University with his best friend Eli Schwartz and dating fellow survivor Amber Webb. However, just time for Amber to visit one October weekend, the nightmares begin invading his waking hours and the man in black who’d made him an offer he couldn’t refuse returns. Meanwhile, reluctant Edgewood Jack Boy Javion Jackson joins more hardened gang members in an ambush of the Boulevard Crips, only to find his companions dead and himself a prisoner of sadistic extraterrestrials.

The four are about to be dragged into an interstellar conflagration deep in the heart of downtown Atlanta. And not all will come home alive…