Isaac Byler is a lifelong member of the Templeton, Pennsylvania Amish. After a violent clash with another man in the district he is given a single evening to pack his belongings and leave. But a great evil is brewing and excommunication quickly becomes the least of Isaac's worries. The Bloody Ballad of Isaac Byler is a short story by J.V. Roberts, the author that brought you the chart topping post-apocalyptic novel, The Rabid.