Dale Ramsey and Ariane Bennett took a wrong turn when they went looking for the supposedly-haunted covered bridge in the snowy back roads of west Tennessee. There's a fine line between wandering and getting lost, and what they see on the other side of the car window chills them far more than the snow falling on the road.
All that can kill you is what you carry with you, and what they carry could destroy their dreams of forever.
Elizabeth Donald is a dark fiction writer fond of things that go chomp in the night. She is author of the Blackfire urban fantasy series and Nocturne vampire mystery series, as well as other novels, novellas and stories in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres. She is a three-time winner of the Darrell Award for speculative fiction and finalist for the Prism, Imadjinn and Knost awards, and more recently received the Mimi Zanger Award for fiction. She is the founder of the Literary Underworld small-press cooperative; an award-winning journalist and essayist with more than 25 years in journalism; a nature and art photographer; freelance editor and writing coach. She holds a masters degree in media studies and MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and teaches journalism and English composition at several St. Louis colleges. She serves as president of the St. Louis Society of Professional Journalists and vice president of the AWP Adjunct Writers Caucus, and is a member of the national SPJ Ethics Committee, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Authors Against Book Bans, Authors Guild, and more writing and trade organizations than is healthy. She lives with her family in a haunted house in Edwardsville, Illinois. In her spare time, she has no spare time.
Fine little horror story set in the Tennessee backroads. When the couple goes looking for an old haunted bridge, the road they are on might just lead to its own special corner of Hell.