This book is being published serially, one chapter every Sunday, by the website The Bitter Southerner. Find all the chapters published so far (and sign up for new ones as they are published) at The Epicureans page of the Bitter Southerner website. Who are they? What are they, The Epicureans? They possess great wealth. They share extravagant tastes. They have met secretly on the winter solstice for the past 24 years to enjoy … a very unusual meal. The shadowy group of gourmands gathers next in a lavish new mansion in the Deep South, where a magnate named Mr. Wood waits to satisfy his unholy appetites … and where a wounded warrior named Elmore Rogers just tries to survive for the sake of his twin children. Now with the solstice upon them, it starts to snow. As the Alabama landscape sleeps under a veil of enchantment, Elmore begins to learn that something unimaginably wicked stirs at the Wood place…and that his former employer hungers for what Elmore holds dearest. How can poor, battle-scarred Elmore—and Kelly, his beautiful, estranged, deeply troubled ex—protect the thing they love most from the power of ultimate evil?