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Fiction | PoetryTHE ALL-SOUL'S FAIRE
Title: The All-Souls Faire
Author: Kristy Tallman
Genre: Psychological Thriller
A goat's head staring back at Detective Cole Bryant from within the bowels of his latest victim sets forth a string of unnatural deaths among the teenagers that live in the shadow of the cursed North Mountain. Trying to solve the case only brings Cole closer to dark side where temptation, sex and sinful ways lure him into the world of a family whose backwoods morals aren't simply a symptom of a forgotten age in time but the consequence of a centuries old pact made with the devil himself.
CROWS ON THE CROSS
Title: Crows on the Cross
Author: Kristy Tallman
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Franz Kafka, in his Letter to Oskar Pollak, said, "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us...We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." Crows on the Cross has been deemed such a book.
Drew and Rainey, two rebels with a cause wake up a thousand miles apart disturbed by a past that won't rest. Both abused as children by more than just predators of the skin, their very faith in the person who should save them is shot to hell. Now the two of them are speeding toward each other down hell's highway in Rainey's mysterious '69 Caddie, Baby who seemingly awakens the ghosts of their past. Revelations, unfold as the miles click down steering each of them toward the other but not without paying heed to the monsters who destroyed both their lives.
ORANGE
Title: Orange
Author: Rowan Lore
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
As a successful owner of a magazine that's about to go nationwide and friends surrounding her, you would believe Demen had the world in her hands. As life has it, nothing is as black and white as the pages of a book. Demen is tormented by a past she refuses to face, a pain she doesn't want to share with anyone, even the best of her friends. Struggling with the everyday grind, she pushes away the feelings pretending to move on, but is she or is it holding her back? How far will she get when the deepest hurt a person could carry is never set free to be felt? How true of a friend can she be to the ones who need her if she's not willing to depend on them to help her through her own personal trauma? Her closest friends know she refuses to face the pain of losing her parents, but no one talks about it, not even her. Demen needs to face her past in order to go forward, and she will soon find out she doesn’t have to do it alone.
FALL ON ME
Title: Fall On Me
Author: Rowan Lore
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Demen owns a successful magazine. She’s business savvy, but makes poor choices in men. Her latest flame is Adam, a shallow, insecure musician who proves to be another bad choice. Her ex-boyfriend, Bob, pops back in the scene, and she’s both delighted and weary. Demen questions what she really wants while tending to some friends in need. Dollar, her close friend, has returned from a road trip where he’s been beaten by three guys, and she worries how it will affect him. Her best friend, Karyn, is in an abusive relationship, which leaves her feeling helpless in trying to support her. Patience is hard to come by with Karyn, but necessary. She sees Dollar in a new light when he defends her from an unwelcome pass with his newfound strength and maturity. She runs into Bob again, only this time she knows what she wants, and it’s not him.