Book excerpt: "Always surprises and always entertains."- Jonathan Maberry, V-Wars McFALL A Sheriff Littlefield Thriller When wealthy developer Larkin McFall moves to the small Appalachian Mountain community of Barkersville, generations-old tales of supernatural phenomena, sudden deaths, and odd disappearances resurface. Larkin laughs off the stories as superstition, while promising to bring a bright new future to the dying town. Sheriff Frank Littlefield senses a diabolical motive in McFall’s good intentions. High school friends Bobby Eldreth and Ronnie Day also suspect that an evil menace has invaded Barkersville, but both soon fall under McFall’s spell. Has the sinister presence that once infiltrated the abandoned—perhaps haunted—red church spread to the community as McFall turns the family property into a luxurious subdivision? When those who oppose Larkin McFall’s ambitions begin to die horrifically—or even worse, become the man’s biggest supporters—Sheriff Littlefield’s investigation uncovers a man with no past and no fingerprints. A man who destroys people by giving them exactly what they want. ---- Scott Nicholson is the bestselling author of more than 30 thrillers, including the After, Next, and Arize post-apocalyptic series, The Home, and Liquid Fear. His first novel, The Red Church, was a finalist for the Stoker Award. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. keywords: ghost stories, supernatural suspense, Stephen King, Joe Hill, horror, gothic, occult, mystery, J.A. Konrath, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, James Herbert, Adam Nevill, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay