Spearfinger

Some monsters hide in the mountains. Others come home wearing the faces of the people you love.

Thirty-two years ago, eight-year-old Mara Vale vanished from a secluded trail deep in the Tennessee mountains. Her older brother, Jonah, witnessed something he could never explain: a strange old woman standing near his sister. He looked away for only a moment.

When he turned back, they were both gone.

Mara was never found.

Now, after decades of unanswered questions, Jonah returns to the isolated mountain town of Blackwater following his father's death. What should have been a brief visit to settle an estate becomes a descent into a nightmare when he discovers a photograph that should not exist.

The picture shows Mara, still eight years old, standing beside their grandmother.

The photograph was taken years after Mara disappeared.

Their grandmother had already been dead for years.

Then Jonah begins hearing his missing sister calling his name from inside the empty house.

As he searches through his father's disturbing research, Jonah uncovers connections to Spearfinger, a terrifying figure from Cherokee legend. An ancient, stone-bodied predator with an unnaturally sharp finger, an appetite for human livers, and the horrifying ability to disguise herself as someone familiar.

But something is terribly wrong in Blackwater.

The deeper Jonah investigates, the more he realizes that the creature haunting the mountains may not be the only thing he should fear.

Memories can be manipulated. Familiar voices can lie. And the face of someone you have loved your entire life may conceal something beyond human understanding.

With the truth buried somewhere between ancient folklore and an impossible family tragedy, Jonah must confront a question more terrifying than what happened to his sister.

What if she comes home?

And what if the person standing before him remembers everything about being Mara... but isn't Mara at all?

SPEARFINGER is a chilling Appalachian supernatural horror novel that blends Cherokee folklore, psychological terror, disturbing mysteries, and the devastating power of family bonds.

Because sometimes the greatest horror isn't losing someone you love.

It's getting them back.