Legend of Steeple Creek
Hungry to revive life after his parents’ fatal car accident, law student Nathan Stillborn relocates his two younger brothers to his late great-uncle Artemis’ empty Steeple Creek home in Appalachia where he longs for them an argument- and cigarette-free summer while he work-studies at a university miles down a mountainous state route. But when his youngest brother Aden inadvertently unearths Artemis’ genealogy book from the ash of a smashed urn in the cellar, his uncle’s animalistic lineage howls-to-life within Nathan and his brothers who, before long, realize that Steeple Creek’s often abducted townsfolk, finger-pointing town meetings, and mayor’s plantation-style manor—which, seated on the neighboring mountain, overlooks every tree-stump of town—is connected to a clandestine, cannibalistic way-of-life whose source is more human-oriented than the beastly folklore widely rumored to stalk the town’s forests and mill… a realization by the brothers which curls town leader Mayor Garrett’s blood-smeared lips.
Pressured hence by neighboring mayors who crave to conserve their clandestine, man-eating way-of-life within their own respective town, Garrett falsely attributes all disappearances prior to the brothers’ Steeple Creek arrival to the mystical Stillborn lineage and the most recent cases to the three brothers—now dubbed the beast boys—themselves. With little recourse, the boys retreat into the nearby North Woods fleeing both their town-torched home and tree-chipping buck-shots though soon stumble upon a cliff-dwelling wanderer—long since banished by Garrett for ‘propaganda’—who reveals not only his relation to their uncle Artemis and the original purpose of the town which dates centuries back, but also why he believes the identity of the real beast can be proven and exposed if only they’d creep back to town and investigate the old mill. Read An Excerpt [dms] [fblike url=”http://phillipedwin.com/sons-of-beasts/legend-of-steeple-creek-2/ ” style=”standard” float=”right” showfaces=”true” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”]