The Saturday Night Social Club: A Western Novel

By James Harvest

In the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains, where ancient evil wears a modern face, one broken man is all that stands between a town's soul and a darkness money can buy.

Elias Blackwood came to the remote Romanian valley of Valea Neagră to escape a past steeped in failure and blood. He thought he'd find peace in the silence of the mountains, tending horses and forgetting his time as an Interpol agent. But the silence here is a lie. The town is a gilded cage, divided between superstitious locals and a clique of wealthy expats whose genteel surface hides a rotten core.

At the heart of it all is The Saturday Night Social Club-a slice of the American West transplanted into Transylvania, where the whiskey flows, the music plays, and the powerful play at being outlaws. But behind the saloon doors lies a secret more monstrous than any folktale. A secret that connects a brutal Mexican cartel, a network of European financiers, and a resurrected blood cult practicing ancient rites of sacrifice.

When a local farmer is brutally murdered, Sheriff Anya Petrova-a woman shackled by corruption and fear-finds an unlikely ally in the mysterious newcomer. Together, they unravel a conspiracy that stretches from the sun-baked deserts of Sinaloa to the sacred caves of the Carpathians. They will discover a new narcotic so potent it commands a king's ransom, a product cut with a nightmare from the past and sold to a jaded elite hungry for the ultimate transcendent experience.

But for Elias, the investigation becomes terrifyingly personal. The signature of the evil he uncovers is one he has seen before-on the day his sister was taken. To save a town and avenge his past, he must infiltrate the Club, confront the charismatic kingpin who rules it, and face the enigmatic mastermind known only as The Shepherd: a nihilist who has perverted ancient faith into a global enterprise of addiction, abduction, and assassination.

The Saturday Night Social Club is a relentless fusion of Western grit and Gothic horror, a high-stakes thriller where the bullets are real and the secrets are ancient. It is a story of redemption forged in fire, of a frontier where the stakes are not land or gold, but the very soul of a community-and the soul of a man who has nothing left to lose.

If you crave the atmospheric tension of True Detective, the relentless pace of Cartel thrillers, and the dark, ancient secrets of Dracula, your next obsession awaits. Step across the threshold. Your table is ready.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FS7JVB5J
• ISBN13: 9798266659445
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"