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The Gullet: A Novel of Appalachian Horror
A midnight bus. Nineteen strangers. A road that shouldn't exist. When a church charter carrying Jerome Mercer, Clara Martinez, and a dozen other passengers takes a detour onto a forgotten Pennsylvania byway, a sudden storm forces them off the map - onto Route 14, a road the state buried fifty years ago for good reason. The crash strands them in the shadow of Blackwood Mountain, where the trees close ranks, the hills hum with something like a voice, and every path leads back to the same ruined town.
An ex-cop with a badge but no jurisdiction. A grifter who trusts no one but himself. A mother watching her twin sons stop sleeping the same dreams. A woman who has spent decades running from a headline she can't outrun. Together, they have to decide whether to cross a bridge that isn't safe, or turn back toward a mountain that isn't finished feeding. Blackwood Valley doesn't let its passengers go.
It just waits for the next bus.
An ex-cop with a badge but no jurisdiction. A grifter who trusts no one but himself. A mother watching her twin sons stop sleeping the same dreams. A woman who has spent decades running from a headline she can't outrun. Together, they have to decide whether to cross a bridge that isn't safe, or turn back toward a mountain that isn't finished feeding. Blackwood Valley doesn't let its passengers go.
It just waits for the next bus.
