I'm starting a Southern Gothic rock/country band and have been struggling with a name. The best I've come up with is "Bloodstained Back roads" is this cheesy or an I too hard on myself?
I published my second novel this week under my pen name, Eleanor Vale, and I’m still kind of processing that strangers are reading it.
It’s called The Price of Truth (Book Two in The Blackwood Trilogy), and it starts after the family secret has already been exposed. The records were corrected. Lost names were restored. Everyone thought justice had finally happened.
Then someone finds another missing woman. What starts as one corrected family tree turns into a story about erased women, inherited silence, old church records, buried land transfers, and what people protect when the truth becomes inconvenient.
Genre-wise it sits somewhere between Southern Gothic, historical mystery, family saga, and psychological suspense.
It also somehow made it into the Top 10,000 in Historical Thrillers this week which feels unreal for a tiny indie release.
If this sounds like your thing, it’s currently free for Kindle subscribers until Tuesday:
If you prefer starting at the beginning, Book One (The Things We Buried) is already out too.
Would genuinely love to know what people here are reading lately in Southern Gothic / family mystery.