The Winter Calf

by Michael S. Nuckols

Overview

Legends says that the mountain witch drowned her five-year-old son and awaits his return.

Iris Littleton lives in a hidden cabin near Devil's Backbone. Early one morning, as a blizzard looms, she says a short prayer asking the spirits to return her boy. Smoke fills the room and her vision fades. Within hours, a terrified schoolboy knocks on her door.

"The Winter Calf" is the first novel in a series of heart-wrenching tales set in a dark corner of Appalachia known as Maple Gap. Here, spirits still whisper secrets in the wind.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149956210
Publisher:	Noisy Goose Publishing
Publication date:	11/26/2014
Series:	The Maple Gap Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	998,584
File size:	400 KB

About the Author

Michael S. Nuckols' first novel, "The Winter Calf", was inspired by his childhood in the hills of Virginia. The eerie story of a woman haunted by her lost son continues in the 2016 sequel, "The Wasted Grave". The third installment the Maple Gap Series, "The Whispering Souls", was released in July 2016 and visits the Mayfield family two years after the end of "The Winter Calf".

Michael has published two stand-alone novels. "Frozen Highway" tells the contemporary story of a militia leader threatening a former soldier and her family in rural Alaska. Similarly, "The Last Buffalo Soldier" follows a war-hero fighting discrimination in the segregated South of the 1950s. In 2018, Michael ventured into the world of near-future science fiction with the publication of "The Cerenovo Series".

Michael grew up in central Virginia. He has a degree in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia. He has lived in Georgia and, most recently, Alaska. He currently lives in the small town of Antwerp in Northern New York State with his spouse, two dogs, two cats, and a host of other farm animals.