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Clans

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'Clans' is a suspense/thriller novella of 22,783 words.  A young female elementary teacher is in a tavern celebrating the end of the school year with three other teachers when she notices a man she has never seen before watching her.  When she goes home that night she is attacked and nearly murdered on her doorstep.  Her attacker delivers a cryptic message just before killing her.  Which is just before he is killed by the strange man who had been watching her in the bar.  Who then flees after saving her life.  The police detective investigating the case tells her the name of the dead man who attacked her, and that he was from southeastern Kentucky.  That knowledge, plus the words the man uttered just before dying, sends her from her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, off to the mountains of Appalachia to learn how she is involved in such lethal events.  Once there, she becomes embroiled in a brutal fight not only for her life, but for the very soul of the violent world she has been drawn into.All Rights Reserved

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Hollowbone

Deep in the remote hollers of Appalachian West Virginia, the McBride family lives in near-isolation, clinging to their land and legacy like their ancestors before them. Generations of hardship have forged them tough and close-knit, bound by blood, secrets, and the rhythms of the mountains. But when the family matriarch, Alma McBride, begins speaking in tongues and carving strange symbols into the trees, something ancient stirs in the surrounding woods - something that has waited lifetimes to be remembered. As animals vanish, the forest falls silent, and the youngest child begins sleepwalking deep into the hills, it becomes clear: the McBrides are being hunted. Not by man, not by beast - but by something older than both. Something that knows their names. Something tied to a buried piece of family history no one dares speak of. With the isolation of winter closing in and the nearest town miles away, the family must confront their own fractured past to survive. As the unseen force tightens its grip, each McBride is faced with a terrible question: is the evil outside their home... or already inside it? A chilling blend of Southern Gothic and supernatural horror, Hollowbone explores the weight of generational trauma, the mythic power of folklore, and the price of silence in a place where the land never forgets.