Last Cut at the Chainsaw Championship

About this book:

The Whispering Pines Invitational is the Super Bowl of chainsaw carving—fifty thousand dollars, twenty-four artists, and four days of roaring steel biting into old-growth cedar. For Silas Vance, it’s supposed to be his shot at the purse that keeps his shop alive. Then his saw hits a hardened steel rod buried nine inches deep in the heartwood of his log. Someone didn’t just sabotage his sculpture; they tried to kill him.

With a ruined saw, a target on his back, and a corporate promoter who’d rather bury the incident than lose his spectacle, Silas has two choices: walk away, or recut his masterpiece around the trap. As the valley fills with smoke and the competition’s elite—a surgical Swedish champion, a reckless kid on a hot-saw, a legend with numb fingers—turn logs into eagles and frontiersmen, Silas realizes the rod wasn’t random. It was personal. And the man who placed it is still watching from the treeline.

*Last Cut at the Chainsaw Championship* drops you into a world where art is carved with 100cc of violence, where grain direction decides life or death, and where the line between accident and murder is measured in millimeters of steel. Fast, gritty, and cut through with the smell of bar oil and wet cedar, this is a thriller that doesn’t just know its tools—it respects the danger in them.