Elias C.: The Due. Elias C., #1

A murdered farmhand. A perfect kernel of corn in the blood. Black soil where it should not exist. When occult investigator Elias C. and retired cop Hank Nelson are pulled into a rural killing in Mercy County, the evidence points beyond robbery, revenge, or ordinary violence. The Hargreave farm has always been too green, too prosperous, too untouched by drought or failure. Locals whisper about the Blackwater bottoms, a Debt Tree, and a bargain no one wants to remember.
But debts do not disappear because the debtor dies. As more bodies fall and the land begins to rot, Elias and Hank follow the trail into a family legacy rooted in hunger, payment, and blood. On the Hargreave land, every blessing was only ever a loan. And something has come to collect what is due.