When Calleth The Raven

In the summer of 2018, four seventeen-year-old boys set out on an overnight float through the Boston Mountains of Arkansas.Only three came home.Jase MacAlpine vanished in the morning mist near Devil’s Bluff, leaving behind no body, no blood, and no explanation. His best friends-Justy Greenwood, Bryce McIntyre, and Jeremy Partain-swore they heard something strange in the fog just before he disappeared. But in the small mountain town of Jupiter Springs, suspicion soon turned toward the boys themselves.For Justy, the loss destroyed more than a friendship. Once a high-school baseball star with a record-setting fastball and a future that seemed wide open, he walked away from Jupiter Springs and eventually disappeared into addiction and homelessness.Eight years later, Justy comes home.He expects to find the same town, the same rumors, and the same unanswered questions. What he doesn’t expect is to find Bryce and Jeremy again-or to discover that the friendship shattered by Jase’s disappearance may not be beyond saving.Then the three men return to Devil’s Bluff.What they find there raises an unsettling possibility: maybe the past isn’t finished with them.As old rumors resurface and strange clues refuse to provide simple answers, Justy must also rebuild a life he once believed was lost. Along the way, Jeremy’s fifteen-year-old brother, Christian-a rough-around-the-edges kid carrying struggles of his own-begins spending more and more time at the cabin, slowly becoming part of the unlikely family forming in Greenwood Holler.But in Jupiter Springs, old stories have a way of becoming legends.And generations of children have grown up repeating the same warning:When calleth the raven,when riseth the mist,stay ye from the mountainwhere the cold waters twist.When Calleth the Raven is an Ozark mystery about friendship, grief, addiction, recovery, and the things that may-or may not-be hiding in the mountains. Some mysteries have answers.Others become folklore. CONTENT WARNING:Due to the frequent use of profanity, sexual jokes and references, references to addiction and homelessness, the author does not recommend this book for readers under the age of 18 years of age.