Briar Rose Thorne is grieving her late mother Aurora, back in her childhood home on Chicago's South Side. In the days since her mother's passing, she's been having strange, vivid dreams about a girl in white asking for someone to take her home. She also hears phantom music throughout the house, along with other strange… Continue reading Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo
In the small town Alligator Point – just south of New Orleans, Louisiana – stories of “the Piper” are part of the town’s history. Just as much as the infamous slave traders, the Pirates Lafitte. But recently, children have gone missing – with discovered bones the only clues as to what might have happened to them. But in the dangerous lands of the bayou, no one can be certain other animals are to blame. And when nine-year-old Pontiac’s best friend becomes a victim, she can’t help but feel that the legend might be real. What she and her neighbors don’t realize, though, is that the Piper is out for revenge for what the town’s ancestors did all those years ago. If they don’t atone for those crimes before it’s too late, their personal ailments will be the least of their worries. Pay the Piper is the second collaboration between George A. Romero’s estate and bestselling author Daniel Kraus and a Southern Gothic fiction novel that forces characters to face the sins of their ancestors – or pay the price for them.
