Don't Let Them Make You Believe
In Hot Springs, everybody knows something. Nobody says it.
Eli Rourke came to the mountains to disappear. A Charlotte cop with a past he won't talk about, he takes the only job that will have him: deputy in Hot Springs, North Carolina, a trail town on the French Broad River where the water comes up warm out of the ground and every porch ceiling is painted blue.
Then, on the night of the autumn equinox, a hiker walks out of town toward "church" and never comes back. At an abandoned train on the Appalachian Trail, Eli finds a broken chalk circle, letters in no alphabet he knows, and iron that's warm to the touch. By morning his sergeant has told him not to write it down. By afternoon someone has scrubbed the scene clean.
As strange marks appear around town and the longest night of the year draws near, Eli and Trish Albright, the one local who won't look away, follow the trail into old ballads, a family Bible, and a congregation that has sung for two hundred years to keep something asleep beneath the mountains.
Or to wake it.
A Southern Gothic tale of faith, folklore, and the cost of silence.
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