The Last Sin-Eater of Harlan
A Novel of Appalachian Horror

About this book:

In the mist-choked hollows of 1950s Harlan County, death is more than an ending—it's a debt that must be paid. When undertaker Jesse Mercer arrives to bury Eli Crabtree, he finds the old man's kin waiting on an ancient, dreaded ritual: a sin-eater must come to consume a plate of bread and salt, absorbing the dead man's unconfessed evils so his soul can pass. But when the sin-eater fails to appear, and the bread begins to rot on the corpse's chest, the mountain's terrible secret is exposed, and the darkness has nowhere left to go.

Jesse is a man of science in a land of superstition, but the cold that seeps into that cabin isn't normal. As he climbs the frozen ridge to find the missing Silas Vance, he discovers that the old sin-eater has died mid-ritual—and something has followed the undertaker down the mountain. The sins of an entire county are loose, and they are hungry for a new vessel. Forced to confront a horror that defies everything he knows, Jesse must decide if he'll walk away from the Holler, or take up a cursed burden that will damn his soul forever.

*The Last Sin-Eater of Harlan* is a gripping descent into Appalachian gothic terror, where folklore is real, the dead don't stay buried, and every soul has a price. Fans of *The Ritual* and *Slewfoot* will be haunted by this relentless tale of guilt, sacrifice, and the monstrous weight of generations.