The Last Cat

An Ecological Suspense Thriller

By: David Lee Corley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In the Everglades, the deadliest predators don’t have claws. They have signatures.

Field Ranger Mac Tanner doesn't trust anything he can’t track. For eight years, he’s been the sole guardian of Sector 7, a vast wilderness of sawgrass and limestone where the only law is survival. His mission: monitoring a ghost—the last breeding female panther in the territory.

But as a high-stakes federal land review reaches a midnight deadline, Mac discovers a discrepancy that doesn't belong in the wild. The official data being sent to Washington is being scrubbed, and the species he’s spent his life protecting is being systematically deleted from the record to clear the way for a multi-billion dollar land grab.

When his field partner, Dr. Serena Cross, arrives to finalize the survey, Mac realizes the conspiracy runs deeper than a few altered spreadsheets. In a world where an animal only exists if it’s on a screen, Mac must go off-grid to find the physical proof. Forced into a tactical game of shadows against an enemy with infinite resources, he’ll have to use the swamp’s lethal terrain to protect a secret that was never supposed to survive the night.

The system says she doesn't exist. Mac is about to prove the system wrong.