Blood Rain – Paperback

On the morning of February 25, 1884, a strip of Chatham County, North Carolina, woke to red on the ground. Flesh and blood had fallen out of a clear sky onto a farm wife’s yard. The newspapers laughed. The preachers prayed.

Dr. Edwin Latham has steady hands and a habit of looking closer than he should. He takes a scrap of the stuff to his microscope and finds it won’t say what he needs it to say. Old Reverend Amos Whitaker knows why, and he isn’t ready to tell him.

Then the dogs quit barking. A peddler’s mule stands loose in the road with the pack still on its back. Schoolteacher Anna Bellamy counts her pupils at every noon recess, and one day the count comes up short.

BLOOD RAIN is Appalachian Gothic horror, a fictionalized version of a true story, set in the real North Carolina hills. The sheriff is honest and the doctor is rational. The sky is not as empty as it looks.

From the author of the Darkwood Legacy Series, The Field, Silence and The Pale Quiet of Cedar Creek.