andywalker_7
In the ruins of Appalachia, a feared bounty hunter known as the Ghost of the South roams from town to town, surviving on violence and routine while being haunted by the memory of his mother, Angela-the only person who ever called him by his real name, Zach, and the one he was forced to kill before she turned. Hardened by loss and stripped of empathy, Z's legend grows as his humanity fades, until a dangerous cult operating in Virginia pulls him into a hunt that forces him to confront not just fanatics and murderers, but the person he has become and the woman who would be horrified by it. This is a bleak, character-driven survival story about grief, identity, and whether a man can stop being a ghost long enough to save someone else.