The Citadel Protocol: Haint Blues eBook

When the world starts coming apart, the safest place is supposed to be the mountain.

Tara and Micah Hale grew up in the Appalachian hills of North Carolina, raised by grandparents who taught them to live off the land and respect what lives in it. Haints, spooks, and wraiths have always walked these ridges, and Tara still keeps the old wards of salt, sage, and haint-blue paint. Micah, a veteran with nightmares of his own, trusts his rifle. When their childhood friend Beau, a Charlotte journalist, comes home to ride out the cities' collapse, the three settle in at Black Hollow Ridge.

Then the radio starts broadcasting talk of a "civilian harvest." Brevard burns, and the mountain falls silent. Something is hunting them, and it wants them to know it.

As the trio is driven from their only home, Beau reveals an anonymous tip about a classified plan called the Citadel Protocol. Whatever it is, it's coming for everyone.

Haint Blues is a fast, gritty Appalachian horror novella that blends mountain folklore, folk magic, and apocalyptic survival. It's also the first step into the world of The Citadel Protocol.