Under A Strawberry Moon: Marrow Bone Creek
Tasha L. Harrison
When the strawberries bloom early in Marrow Bone Creek, everyone knows it's a bad omen. Everyone except the tourists who flock to the quaint Appalachian town for its annual Founders Day Festival, hungry for authentic mountain charm and sweet, ripe fruit.
Naomi Thornfield has spent years running from her family's legacy of second sight and rootwork, content to tend her grandmother's bookshop and ignore the golden threads of power she sees connecting every soul in town. But when Dempsey Calloway's strawberry fields yield fruit that tastes like memory and bleeds like wounds, she can no longer deny what she's inherited.
Dempsey knows his land is cursed. He's known since his wife's death seven years ago left him with nothing but grief and soil that grows sweetness touched by shadow. When Naomi offers to help him understand what's happening to his harvest, their shared sorrow kindles into something deeper—even as darkness gathers around them.
Because beneath the town's postcard charm, something ancient stirs. The Fellowship of Everlasting Light preaches salvation through ritual sacrifice. Townspeople smile with berry-stained mouths and hunger in their eyes. And with each crimson fruit consumed, an entity sleeping beneath Marrow Bone Lake grows stronger.
As the strawberry moon rises full and red, Naomi and Dempsey must choose between the love they've found and the terrible price the land demands. Some debts span generations. Some hungers are older than memory. And in Marrow Bone Creek, the sweetest fruit always carries the deadliest cost.
A gothic romance where desire and darkness bloom from the same cursed soil.
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