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(Previously published as "When the Shadows are Hungry & Cold") Bryce Carrigan is a deputy in a dying town, a flawed man anchored to a violent past and struggling to create for himself and his pregnant wife a future he is no longer sure he wants. On the night he encounters a strange woman at the scene of a car accident on the border of Milestone (a mysterious town famed among the locals for its high volume of inexplicable car wrecks), everything changes. For what she does will leave Bryce possessed of the conviction that the woman is no mere woman at all...but something as impossible and terrifying as the town in which she stands.
Author
Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy. Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard, an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), a bartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a grunge band, curriculum content editor, fiction editor at Gothic.net, and, most recently, a fraud investigator. When not writing, Kealan designs book covers through his company Elderlemon Design. A movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture. Represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House Agency.
