A Southern Buddhist Thriller
coming Sept. 3
Angel Jones escapes from a prison work crew, leaving behind a trail of victims before disappearing in the deep woods in Yonah, N.C. Believed dead but his body never found, Angel's presence haunts the inhabitants of a remote mountain community.
Cal and Joy McAlister are new arrivals from Chicago. A retired commodity trader, self-sober alcoholic and heart attack survivor, Cal finds himself growing restless with his third wife. Joy, a physical therapist turned potter, wants to reshape her life and marriage. The caretaker of a girl’s summer camp, Doyle Smathers becomes their handyman, fetching Cal a batch of fake moonshine and building Joy a kiln. He’s also caring for a new guest, Ainsley Morse, the camp owner’s granddaughter who’s detoxing herself from a troubled past with Buddhist meditation while living alone in a yurt on the mountainside.
Angel’s energy still haunts those woods, driving these four people together and apart in unexpected ways. The novel is a metaphysical thriller, a meditation on recovery and reincarnation, marriage and betrayal, death and rebirth, an exploration of how our fears give flesh to our hungry ghosts.
From Southern Fried Karma Press
Cal and Joy McAlister are new arrivals from Chicago. A retired commodity trader, self-sober alcoholic and heart attack survivor, Cal finds himself growing restless with his third wife. Joy, a physical therapist turned potter, wants to reshape her life and marriage. The caretaker of a girl’s summer camp, Doyle Smathers becomes their handyman, fetching Cal a batch of fake moonshine and building Joy a kiln. He’s also caring for a new guest, Ainsley Morse, the camp owner’s granddaughter who’s detoxing herself from a troubled past with Buddhist meditation while living alone in a yurt on the mountainside.
Angel’s energy still haunts those woods, driving these four people together and apart in unexpected ways. The novel is a metaphysical thriller, a meditation on recovery and reincarnation, marriage and betrayal, death and rebirth, an exploration of how our fears give flesh to our hungry ghosts.
From Southern Fried Karma Press
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