The Hunting Tree Books in Order

The Hunting Tree books take place in and around New Hampshire’s White Mountains, where local legends about something buried in the hills turn out to have teeth. For thousands of years a supernatural killer has slept there, bound to a particular tree and the land around it.

In The Hunting Tree, a small group of amateur ghost hunters goes looking for proof of the paranormal. They find more than cold spots and eerie recordings. Their curiosity wakes the thing in the mountains, a relentless predator that moves from the high forests toward the towns to the east. It is ancient, powerful, and uninterested in human rules. As it begins to hunt, odd signs and brutal deaths ripple through nearby communities, pulling in people who never meant to stand between humanity and extinction.

The monster’s actions are purely evil from a human point of view, but Hamill complicates the picture. The same force that kills indiscriminately may also be the only thing capable of stopping a much larger threat. Characters argue bitterly over whether to destroy it, control it, or simply survive its passage. The book jumps between different perspectives—locals, investigators, and those with older ties to the land—so the reader sees how one creature’s return rearranges an entire region’s sense of safety.

Blood Ghost, the second book, pushes deeper into the aftermath. The people who crossed paths with the Hunting Tree’s guardian are left to pick up the pieces while realizing that they might not have seen the last of it. Old stories about white mountains, lost settlements, and earlier visitations start to look less like folklore and more like a partial history of repeated disasters. Families who thought they had escaped find that the past is still stalking them, and new characters discover just how high the stakes really are.

Across the series, Hamill balances creature-feature thrills with a slow revelation of larger, almost cosmic stakes. The setting matters: trails, cabins, ski towns, and remote back roads all become stages for confrontation. The woods feel both beautiful and claustrophobic, a place where help is always a little too far away. Readers can expect violent confrontations, quiet moments of dread, and a steady drip of information about what the monster is and why it may not be the worst thing out there.