Devil's Creek

Fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky, lies Devil's Creek. Local legend says a church once stood there, home to the Lord's Church of Holy Voices, a death cult whose preacher, Jacob Masters, served a nameless god. The legend rests on fact. In 1983 the church burned to the ground after a mass suicide.

Jacob's six children survived, and so did their grandparents, who joined forces against the man who had led the congregation. Known as the Stauford Six, the children grew up under scrutiny and mockery. Thirty years on, that notoriety has faded, and Jacob Masters is little more than a campfire tale.

Jack Tremly, one of the Six, built a successful art career on his memories of that night. The same memories have given him nightmares for a lifetime. When his grandmother Imogene dies, he goes back to Stauford to settle her estate.

There he finds secrets she kept from him while he was growing up, secrets about his father and the church. They cannot stay buried much longer. Jacob's god has deep roots, and something at the heart of Devil's Creek is starting to stir.

This is a small-town horror novel in a rural Kentucky setting, with a family's buried past at its center and a mood of mounting dread.