Kayli Scholz

A deranged serial killer known only as the Hillbilly Hammer comes to Sugar Bends, leaving the small rural town with more questions than answers. Theo Shortridge, a crime-scene clean-up tech, pursues the serial killer with the unlikely help of twelve-year-old clairvoyant, Letty Hardin. As the two begin to close in on the killer, they are forced to rely on both the living...and the dead."If Stephen King's best coming-of-age work took place in Florida, you'd have Black Rain Season. Excellent, fast-paced story featuring heartfelt characters and an exceptionally creepy killer. I loved this book and know you will too." -Sonora Taylor, award-winning author of Little Paranoias: Stories and Without ConditionIn the Sunshine State, the weather is hot and the people are shady. Kayli Shultz's Black Rain Season drips with dark, southern gothic goodness in a slow burn mystery that unravels deliciously with each horrific turn of the page. - Wendy Dalrymple, author of White Ibis and Parasocial"Viciously exciting and unrepentantly queer while hitting all the nostalgic notes, BLACK RAIN SEASON is a haunting gothic masterpiece and Scholz is a master of Southern horror." -Sirius, author of Rising Sun Over the Devil's Nest"Grim, heartfelt, eerie, and hopeful. An evocative dream of Halloween." -Johnny Compton, author of The Spite House and Devils Kill Devils"Scholz is a master at creating unforgettable villains who wrap their fingers around the throats of everyday people and refuse to let go, mutating every seemingly innocent interaction into a sinister omen. I loved every second of it." -Tiffany Meuret, author of Flood of Posies, Little Bird, and Cataclysm

"This is the real stuff I'm always chasing, every chapter a warning, every page a curse, entirely irresistible to read even as you know reading it will damn you forever."-Daniel Kraus, author of WHALEFALL One brooding summer, Nadine Boone pricks herself on a poisonous manchineel tree in the Florida backcountry. Upon self-orgasm, Nadine conjures a witch that she calls Saint Grit. Pitched as Gummo meets The Craft, Saint Grit grows inside of Nadine over three decades, wreaking repulsive havoc on a suspicious cast of characters in a small town known as Sugar Bends.