Foodchain: A Dark Comedy Novel (The Sutter Family Legacy of Evil Book #2)

Hard-boiled horror meets Depression-era grit in this brutal, breathless descent into a town that’s run on bones, gunpowder, and the cruel economy of who eats whom.

Frank Winter had a gift with animals—until one vicious kick shattered the life he planned. Now it’s 1939, the Depression’s dust still settling, and Frank is broke, hunted, and one wrong move from a grave.

Dragged from a trunk and nearly fed to the beasts at a roadside menagerie, Frank makes a desperate break for freedom. He flees into the hollowed-out town of Whitewood, a place ruled by Horace Sturm—a man with a golf-ball tumor and a taste for brutal entertainments. Sturm sees an investment where others see ruin: exotic beasts, starving and dangerous, turned into a dark carnival for rich hunters with itchy trigger fingers.

Desperate and dangerously useful, Frank agrees to tend the animals and train them for the hunts—at first for cash, then for survival. As the town morphs into a blood-slick arena of death matches and revenge, Frank must choose a side: become predator or become prey. All the while, Annie Glouck—young, fierce, and impossibly alive—makes him risk more than escape…she makes him care.