Hallowed Ground

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Roll Them Bones / Deep Blue / The Orffyreus Wheel / The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Currently Accepted Habits of Nature / Heart of a Dragon / On the Third Day / This is My Blood

OTHER CROSSROAD TITLES BY STEVEN SAVILE:

NOVELS:

Laughing Boy's Shadow

The Last Angel

The Sufferer's Song

UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOKS:

The Forgetting Wood – Narrated by Ian Stuart

CHAPTER ONE

They came in the night with their creak-wheeled wagons and patchwork tents, rolling down through the gulch and up the other side to pitch camp.  In Rookwood, they called it 'Dead man's Gulch,' and in Rookwood, names were important.  If you walked too far through that God-forsaken, dust-drowned ditch, you were bound to drag your boots through bones.  If you felt something sharp dig into your heel, it could be a tooth taking a last bite of something hot and living.  The Deacon stood in silent shadows watching their progress, occasionally glancing up into the pale, inadequate light of the waning moon.

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