The Harlan Artifact is my second novel, a supernatural thriller with a healthy dose of mystery and hick humor. The inspiration comes from the historic Native American mound site Angel Mounds, in southern Indiana. This one was a blast to research and to write, and I'm honored to share it with the world. For the free short story prequel, just click HERE and read it instantly on your phone or computer. All author profit from the sale of this book benefits Allie's Voice, a domestic violence prevention initiative in Evansville, IN.
Lainey Tuttle, an out-of-shape bowling alley bartender, is trying to get her life together when the unimaginable happens. Something took her best friend and fifteen others at Harlan, Indiana’s lantern-lit Fright Night Trail Run near ancient Cherub Mounds, leaving forensics teams scratching their heads. Ideally, her retrocognitive abilities would help her uncover the truth, but she lost those talents after a head-cracking fall during that very race.
When authorities lock down the forest, mound site, and its museum, hindering Lainey’s efforts, she finds only three people on her side: her eccentric archaeology professor, Clyde Duggard, local college wrestler Slim Dickens, and her dead father’s ex-girlfriend, Harlan Police Officer Amy Hendershot, who she despises as much as the backwoods, hillbilly town of Harlan itself.
As Lainey strives to find what’s causing more disappearances, her level of peril takes an incredible jump, and she finds herself not only face-to-face with a mysterious creature, but with her own redemption as well.
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