Upon the death of a grandfather she never knew, Mallory Glessner, a small-town New Hampshire veterinarian, finds herself the sole beneficiary of his massive fortune. Left with an unmarked envelope containing a mysterious key, she unlocks a secret whose shadow has haunted her family for more than fifty years. Intertwined across three generations and four continents, SASQ’ET is a story of redemption and discovery.
Mallory recruits Dr. George Avery, the world’s leading field zoologist to help her identify what she has found. At first, he is reluctant, unaware of the magnitude of what she has brought to him. As the puzzle begins to take shape, he is confronted and challenged by what the answers he finds reveal.
What they uncover threatens to unravel humanity’s place in the world. The clues they stumble upon, hidden in plain sight inside the ivy walls of the world’s most revered museums and universities, lead them deep into the forests of Siberia and Canada’s unmapped wilderness.
What they find, they mostly find in each other. But theirs is a dangerous journey. An adventure they cannot escape, it will come with a cost. The truth was always there. No one had gone looking for it.
From the evidence of a single incident at Chehalis Lake in British Columbia in 1939, SASQ’ET comes face to face with the enigma of Sasquatch. While the sweeping historical narrative weaves a fictional tale, the accounts contained within this book are believed to have occurred.
Sometimes the truth is best left unknown.
© 2026 Maxim Langstaff
Mallory recruits Dr. George Avery, the world’s leading field zoologist to help her identify what she has found. At first, he is reluctant, unaware of the magnitude of what she has brought to him. As the puzzle begins to take shape, he is confronted and challenged by what the answers he finds reveal.
What they uncover threatens to unravel humanity’s place in the world. The clues they stumble upon, hidden in plain sight inside the ivy walls of the world’s most revered museums and universities, lead them deep into the forests of Siberia and Canada’s unmapped wilderness.
What they find, they mostly find in each other. But theirs is a dangerous journey. An adventure they cannot escape, it will come with a cost. The truth was always there. No one had gone looking for it.
From the evidence of a single incident at Chehalis Lake in British Columbia in 1939, SASQ’ET comes face to face with the enigma of Sasquatch. While the sweeping historical narrative weaves a fictional tale, the accounts contained within this book are believed to have occurred.
Sometimes the truth is best left unknown.
© 2026 Maxim Langstaff