The Shadow Over Lone Oak by C. J. Sears

Summary
The idyllic town of Lone Oak is surrounded by mountains and forest – isolated from the outside world. When a young woman is murdered and her body displayed, the news hits the peaceful town with a devastating blow. But as Special Agent Llewyn Finch discovers, the town was always rotting underneath the surface.

Lone Oak's sheriff is out of her depth. Between the moonshiners and the local newspaper's antipathy toward her, Willow Donahue already had a host of problems on her plate. But a dead girl is new. It's threatening. A cult is on her doorstep and Finch is the only one who can help her stop it – if she can learn to trust in him and his abilities.

As the investigation unfolds, the two of them come to realize that there are more important questions. Who really runs Lone Oak? Why? What is the endgame of a crippled town at the edge of civilization?

There's a saying in Lone Oak: evil is a whisper in the wind. But this whisper is everywhere. It's in the mines. It's in the woods. It's in their homes.

It's under the skin.


Published: December 22nd 2016