Sallow Bend

In the small, rural town of Sallow Bend, two teenage girls—Clare and Suki—go missing, and the community pulls together to search for them. But recovering the girls only unlocks something far worse: an ancient evil that has visited Sallow Bend before, waking now beneath the lights of a newly arrived carnival. Only Caleb Jackson, a solitary school janitor so sensitive to others' faces and body language that he can barely meet an eye, begins to grasp what is really happening—and that everyone is in danger.

As he draws closer to Tricia Brent, a local woman still grieving the disappearance of her own son a year before, Caleb races to break a pattern the town has forgotten it's trapped in. Published by Cemetery Dance, Alan Baxter's Sallow Bend is a tense, bloody folk-horror novel about missing children, buried secrets, and the evil that returns when no one remembers the last time.