First published 2020
Jack Tremly was six years old when his father Jacob Masters led the Lord's Church of Holy Voices in a mass suicide that burned their Kentucky church to the ground in 1983. Jack escaped with five other children and spent thirty years turning his trauma into art while the world forgot about the "Stauford Six." When his grandmother Imogene dies, Jack returns to settle her estate in Stauford. He discovers that Imogene hid crucial information about his father and the cult that worshipped a nameless god. The secrets she protected can no longer remain hidden. Fifteen miles west of town, something stirs in the ruins of Devil's Creek where Jacob Masters once preached. Jack must confront the truth about his past and the entity his father served, as the buried god's influence reaches toward him once again.
Genres: mystery, horror, supernatural, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Kentucky, Stauford, Devil's Creek
Period: 1983, 2013
405 pages · Paperback · Silver Shamrock Publishing
Content warnings: death, violence