APPALACHIAN
ROMANTASY
Haunted woods, dangerous bargains, and love that refuses to stay buried.
Reckoning & Other Local Traditions
In the mountains of East Tennessee, the land keeps score—and every bargain comes due.
Environmental journalist Jessamine Calder arrives in Hollowtree Gap chasing a story about poisoned water, vanishing wildlife, and the scars Helix Holdings is cutting into the mountains. But the deeper she digs, the stranger the land becomes.
The closer she gets to uncovering the truth, the more tightly her fate becomes entangled with the most dangerous man in Ashgrave.
To find her way home, Jessamine must trust the monster everyone beyond the Veil fears.
To keep her alive, the Blacklight may have to burn down the kingdom that made him.
Southern Gothic romantasy with environmental horror, cryptid folklore, vicious court politics, slow-burn tension, and a romance forged in the dark.
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Reckoning and Other Local Folklore, Book One of the Old Blood Black Earth series, is currently in active drafting and revision, with plans for indie publication through Haunted Holler Press.
At Haunted Holler Press, we believe that the scariest monsters aren't the ones under the bed, they are the ones hidden in our own code.
The world of the Old Blood Black Earth series has its own monsters.
In the real world, mine is ALS.
Every book I write, every page I publish, is fueled by the hope that one day no one else has to watch someone they love disappear piece by piece to this brutal illness.
Because of that, I have committed to donating a percentage of all Haunted Holler Press profits to ALS research.
Stories carry power. Research builds weapons. Together, they become the molecular swords scientists are forging to silence ALS once and for all.
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