White Hill

by Devon De'Ath

Never go alone...

Those three words haunted a winding country lane like fireflies encircling a lamp. Many had heard of the road ghost. Fewer knew about the woodland disturbances.

Angry and unable to move beyond the tragic death of his young son, Nick Preston separates from his exhausted wife. Relocating to rural Kent, he rents a cottage in the ancient village of Chilham.
Nick's attempts to break an obsession with his dead boy backfire. He sees and hears the child in more than his dreams.

When others encounter departed loved ones, Nick's curiosity and a need for resolution cause him to investigate.
With mounting terror focused along a sinister, local section of The Pilgrims' Way, he forms unlikely alliances for support.

Faith, courage and resolve beyond compare are required for the misfit companions to thwart a dark, spiritual power at White Hill.

355 pages, ebook

Published March 26, 2021

About the author

Devon De’Ath was born in the county of Kent, ‘The Garden of England.’ Raised a Roman Catholic in a small, ancient country market community famously documented as ‘the most haunted TOWN in England,’ he grew up in an atmosphere replete with spiritual, psychic, and supernatural energy. Hauntings were commonplace and you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting three spectres, to the extent that he never needed question the validity of such manifestations. As to the explanations behind them?

At the age of twenty, his earnest search for spiritual truth led the young man to leave Catholicism and become heavily involved in Charismatic Evangelicalism. After serving as a part-time youth pastor while working in the corporate world, he eventually took voluntary redundancy to study at a Bible College in the USA. Missions in the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa followed, but a growing dissatisfaction with aspects of the theology and ministerial abuse by church leadership eventually caused him to break with organised religion and pursue a Post-Evangelical existence. One open to all manner of spiritual and human experiences his ‘holy’ life would never have allowed.

After church life, De’Ath served fifteen years with the police, lectured at colleges and universities, and acted as a consultant to public safety agencies both foreign and domestic.

A writer since he first learned the alphabet, Devon De’Ath has authored works in many genres under various names, from Children’s literature to self-help books, through screenplays for video production and all manner of articles.

Reviews

[Jay Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

White Hill has frequent appearance of a white woman in front of the auto coming up the hill. The driver fasts stop, but hit the woman. When the driver coming up there is no victim and no damages to the car. The story is easy reading and very interesting. Many characters are attractive, and several others are evil. Ghosts come and out for the characters in the story. Evils in the White Hill hurts the people as they center near black magic. Some of the characters are deception, eventually are dangerous. I found most of the characters are attractive and engross the reader as threats hit one after another. I enjoyed the story, but didn't to want more.

[Wendy Shores · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't read many British novels, but I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. The characters were engaging, easy to love or hate, depending on what side they were on and the story line kept me hooked to the end. As a Canadian born person, I understood more than most might as we use some of the same terminology up there (I live in the USA now) but others left me guessing. The story was tight enough for what I didn't understand not to matter, and I would highly suggest this book to any friend who was looking for a good, entertaining read.

[Bobbi Wagner · Rating 4 out of 5]

i enjoyed this suspenseful story. This is a newer author for me and I look forward to reading more in the future. This is a well written story that has characters that are engaging and relateable. They bring the story to life and kept me turning pages to the end. I enjoyed being pulled into the story from the first chapter. The twists and turns kept me sitting on the edge of my seat just waiting to see what would happen next. This is a story about a child's death, obsession, faith and darkness. I highly recommend this book.

[Laura Robertson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slow burn but found I couldn't stop reading it.