HUMBOLDT COUNTY:
DAY'S BREAK
A Rural Noir Where the Mud Sticks to Your Boots and the Truth Sticks to Your Throat
Sheriff Emmett Day dies looking at the stars through river fog, twelve-gauge thunder still ringing in the dark.
Nobody saw nothing. Nobody ever does in Humboldt County.
His son Morgan comes home. Ex-military. The kind of work you don't talk about. He finds a county rotting from the inside out, a box of secrets his father hid under the floorboards, and a conspiracy that reaches far past the county line.
Rural noir. Southern gothic. The kind of story where the mud sticks to your boots and the truth sticks to your throat.
What You Get
- • 45,000 words of pure noir storytelling
- • Prologue + 12 chapters + epilogue
- • Complete standalone novel
Perfect For Fans Of
- • Cormac McCarthy's pace
- • Daniel Woodrell's grit
- • Slow dread of something wrong in the water
NOIR SOUTHERN NOIR NEO WESTERN FICTION
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