This author explores complex relationships and moral dilemmas, often set against the backdrop of the evocative, yet stark, Southern landscape. Her prose is celebrated for its poetic quality and profound insight into the human psyche. Through her characters, she delves into themes of identity, family, and the search for belonging. Her work resonates with readers who appreciate depth and authenticity in their literary experiences.
The third and final novel in Steph Post's acclaimed Judah Cannon trilogy, in which Judah and his girlfriend Ramey must face a final showdown with maniacal Pentacostal preacher Sister Tulah, which could set them free for a new life, or suck them back into a life of crime and destroy everything they have worked so hard to create.
After a stint in prison, Judah Cannon, middle son of the notorious Cannon clan of outlaws, attempts to put his criminal past in the rearview mirror to settle down with his love Ramey Barrow. But when Judah goes on one last run to settle family debts, he finds himself in the crosshairs of a war between his father, the tyrannical patriarch Sherwood Cannon, and a megalomaniacal preacher who wields faith like a scythe.
"Judah Cannon is trying to extricate the Cannon family from the crime ring they are known and feared for when he finds himself in the sights of Everett Weaver, a cold blooded killer and drug runner from Daytona Beach. Meanwhile, ATF Special Agent Clive Grant arrives from Atlanta to investigate a fire at Sister Tulah's church, and becomes obsessed with Tulah's iron grip on Bradford County and determined to take her down. His investigation leads him to Judah's door, and soon the Cannons are caught up in an increasingly tangled web of violence, lies and retribution on both sides of the law."--Publisher's description.
The year is 1922. The carnival is Pontilliar’s Spectactular Star Light Miraculum, set up on the Texas-Louisiana border. One blazing summer night, a mysterious stranger steps out onto the midway, lights a cigarette and forever changes the world around him. Tattooed snake charmer Ruby has traveled with her father’s carnival for most of her life and, jaded though she is, can’t help but be drawn to the tall man in the immaculate black suit who has joined the carnival as a geek, a man who bites the heads off live chickens. Mercurial and charismatic, Daniel charms everyone he encounters but his manipulation of Ruby becomes complicated when it no longer becomes clear who is holding all the cards. For all of Daniel’s secrets, Ruby has a few of her own. When one tragedy after another strikes the carnival, and it becomes clear that Daniel is somehow at the center of calamity, Ruby takes it upon herself to discover the mystery of the shadowy man pulling all the strings. Joined by Hayden, a roughneck-turned-mural-painter who has recently reentered her life, Ruby enters into a dangerous, eye-opening game with Daniel in which nothing and no one is as it seems and yet everything is at stake.
Judah Cannon kämpft ums Überleben, nachdem er einen Konflikt mit seiner tyrannischen Mutter und einem Motorradclub überstanden hat. Gemeinsam mit seiner Geliebten Ramey sieht er sich neuen, gefährlichen Feinden gegenüber, während er versucht, seine Familie aus dem Verbrecherring zu befreien. Special Agent Clive Grant ermittelt in der Sache und bringt die Cannons in ein Netz aus Gewalt und Lügen. Judah steht vor entscheidenden Entscheidungen, die sein Schicksal bestimmen könnten.