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A novel in progress
Some places keep their secrets beneath the floorboards. Others let the wind carry them home.
Enter the storyThe premise
The heat remembers everything.
At the edge of a country gone brittle with summer, a silence begins to gather. Devil in the Dust is a dark literary novel about what remains after the truth has been buried too long—and the people who learn to listen for it.
- Setting
- A landscape scorched by memory
- Mood
- Haunted, spare, unrelenting
- In progress
- A story still taking shape
The world
Where the road gives up its names.
Sun-bleached fields. A house that holds its breath. The low, persistent sound of something moving just beyond the tree line.
The silence
What is unsaid has a way of becoming its own weather.
From the manuscript
A first glimpse, not yet a confession.
Follow the trail
The story is still gathering dust.
Return when the wind changes. New fragments, news, and the first true pages will arrive here.
Follow the journey