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Tearstone
Two brothers scarred by a dark family secret. A deputy consumed by the decade old disappearance of her cousin. An old man summoned to the humble town of Washington Heights by the discovery of an ancient artifact. The haphazard unearthing of this stone relic, hidden from history, strips the townsfolk of their daily facade and forces them to confront their secret lives. As one brother searches for answers to his father's suicide and the other searches for relief from a decade of guilt, the deputy begins to draw lines connecting them both to her own obsession. And all the while, the birth of an ancient evil looms just on the horizon. This is how the end begins, not with politicians and soldiers, but with the quiet destruction of a little town in Southeastern Ohio. This is the second coming, but it's not Jesus returning, and no one's getting saved.
268 pages, Paperback
Published March 23, 2018
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September 15, 2023
What is it about a book that can keep you reading until the end? A book with great characters, folk horror and chaos. This book had all these themes and many more. This book was emotional, scary and heartbreaking. The whole town goes crazy because of a rock. When Tom’s dad found the stone, I do not think he was prepared for what was going to happen. What goes on this book is told through several members of the community. The people involved find out that “he is coming”. No one really knows what this means of course. Terrible things begin to happen and slowly the group of people involved start to see things unravel. The end was left open to the reader’s interpretation.
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