Wytches #3 by Scott Snyder

After his daughter vanishes, a desperate father discovers a secret pact in their town that trades victims to ancient, feral beings in return for miracles. A hardened survivor explains the rules—how resin marks the “pledged,” how the creatures hunt by scent, and the few crude protections that might keep them at bay. Realizing the authorities are complicit and time is short, he arms himself and prepares to descend into the monsters’ burrows to save his child, even as the threat of betrayal close to home becomes frighteningly real.