I’ve always loved horror stories
about small towns that harbor dark secrets.
My latest novel, The Devil’s Woods, centers around Hagen’s
Cove, an isolated logging town set deep in the Canadian wilderness of British
Columbia. Nestled between mountains and an emerald
green lake, the town is a beautiful place to take a vacation, relax and breathe
in the clean, pine air. Log-and-rock buildings line the main street with shops
that cater to tourism. At the center of Hagen’s
Cove, an ancient white church with a high steeple towers above the other
buildings. At the lake’s edge, you’ll find a rustic hunting and fishing lodge,
a marina filled with boats and a seaplane, and a tavern where all the loggers
who work for Thorpe Timber Mill and Logging Company go to drink. The mill’s
wealthy owner, Jensen Thorpe, is also the mayor.
The inhabitants of Hagen’s
Cove are mostly Danish, descendents of the original Danes who migrated from Denmark
to Canada back
in the late 1800s. Today, they are a quiet people and speak mostly to
themselves in Danish. They are highly superstitious and know there are places
in the surrounding woods where man is considered prey.
For over a century the loggers have
tolerated the Cree people who live on a reservation a few miles down the road,
but the townspeople know that the woods the Crees call “Macâya
Forest” are haunted and anyone who
goes past the warning trees will vanish. Respecting the borders of the
forbidden woods, the Danes and Cree people have maintained a peaceful existence.
That peace is violently disrupted
when one of the Cree descendents, Professor Jon Elkheart, leads an expedition
team into Macâya Forest
to expose its secrets. When the expedition team also vanishes, Elkheart’s three
estranged children, Kyle, Eric and Shawna, travel from Seattle
to Hagen’s Cove to search for their
missing father.
Kyle, the oldest at age 30, was the
closest to his father and used to visit the reservation to going camping and
hunting with Elkheart and Grandfather Two Hawks. Kyle has always been cursed
with a strange gift--he can see and hear ghosts. He also glimpses visions of
where a murder had taken place. When he arrives at the Cree village, it’s not
long before Kyle discovers the woods are filled with restless spirits. One of
them, the ghost of an Indian girl who had been mysteriously murdered twenty
years ago, seems to be trying to warn Kyle. The search for his missing father
will take Kyle and his siblings to the border of Macâya
Forest.
When they discover what lies beyond
the Devil’s Woods, a terrifying nightmare of survival begins.
Some small town secrets should
never be told.
And some woods should never be
entered.
THE DEVIL'S WOODS is now
available in paperback and eBook at Amazon,
BarnesandNoble.com,
iBooks, iTunes, and wherever books are sold.
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Author
Bio: Brian Moreland writes novels and short stories of horror and supernatural
suspense. His books include Dead of Winter, Shadows in the Mist, The Girl from the Blood Coven, The Witching House, and The Devil’s Woods. His next book, The Vagrants, will release in June 2014.
Brian lives in Dallas, Texas where he is diligently
writing his next horror novel. You can join his mailing list at http://www.brianmoreland.com/
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Obviously, I love this book. Love this guest post. It certainly sells the book well, but the best part is that the book really is good. :)
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