The Haint Road

TBI Special Agent Jonah Rains thought Laurel Fork County had already shown him the worst it could hold.

Then a man is found dead on an old mountain road with haint blue paint on his skin, prayer scraps in the mud, and no easy explanation for why half the county is afraid to say the road's name.

Locals call it the Haint Road. For generations, desperate people have gone there with prayers, bargains, apologies, blood, and grief. Some come back believing they were answered. Some come back ruined. Some do not come back at all.

Rootworker Maeve McGaha knows the road is not fake. Dr. Willa Crane knows the bodies are telling a human story. Sheriff Dwayne Salyer knows the county has learned to survive by looking away. Jonah needs evidence that will hold in court, but every clue leads deeper into land theft, old family sins, corrupted faith, and a mountain truth that refuses to stay buried.

As the missing, the dead, and the desperate point toward the same hidden operation, Jonah and Maeve must decide how much truth the living deserve, how much mercy the guilty deserve, and what the road will take if they get it wrong.

Dark, sensual, and atmospheric, The Haint Road is Book 2 in The Hollow Holds series, an adult Appalachian gothic crime thriller blending folk horror, paranormal suspense, slow-burn romance, land hunger, old sins, and the cost of being truly witnessed.