Ghostflowers

The weekend of July Fourth, 1971 The jukebox is playing "Everything is Beautiful"...Old Glory flaps against the blue, Southern sky...The aromas of burgers and hot dogs hang in the still air...Children laugh as they play with sparklers in the park...And the night fills with screams when a girl's body is found, her throat torn out by savage teeth... Summer Moore is a waitress at the Dixie Dinette. Twenty, blonde and beautiful, Summer desperately needs to break free from her mother's constant nagging and the dull monotony of life in the small mountain town of Stonebridge, Virginia. She wants out. His buddies in 'Nam called him the Midnight Rider. Trager's the name on his Army jacket, but a dark shadow of the unknown hangs over this Vietnam vet as he rides into town on a night-black Electra Glide, called on a quest that's tainted by blood. Sheriff Buddy Hicks doesn't like hippies in his town...especially not long-haired hippie bikers. As soon as the sheriff saw him, he knew the biker was trouble. Now something feels different in Stonebridge-something he doesn't understand-and he's not going to put up with radicals in his town...not some biker, and not some smart mouth like Summer Moore. There are secrets in the woods. Ben Castle, who summoned the biker with a note scrawled in blood...Louise Moore, who refuses to lose control of her daughter like she lost her husband...Summer and the biker, locked in a dance, an embrace of shadows that has lasted for centuries...And even the mountains themselves hold secrets... It's a rock and roll Grand Guignol. It's a death-dance in the moonlight.ghostflowersIt's a love story. With blood.

Genre: Horror

"...Brilliant... I read more than half in one sitting. Dinner was late that night. ... Ghostflowers is steeped in the heat of passion and a melting-pot summer. A black Gothic rose of a novel, its petals drip with blood of the deepest red. It's a love story with deadly consequences as its many layers peel back to reveal the strange truth of the man who came to Stonebridge. There is ecstasy, pain, blood and much more in this story steeped in atmosphere and the vampire mythos. It is a horror-love story-that bites. ...I loved it." - Catherine Cavendish

"Ghostflowers gripped me from the first page to the last. It's a glorious blend of horror and romance, a story as shocking as it is beautiful and firmly rooted in the southern gothic tradition." - Michael Howarth

"As immersive and lyrical as it is brutal and bloody, Ghostflowers is an unputdownable examination of love, fear, and desperation-a thrill-ride launched from page one that never lets up." - Mandy McHugh

"Atmospheric, suspenseful, passionate, entertaining, and fun! In Ghostflowers, Rus Wornom puts a vampire of myth and legend onto the back of a motorcycle, and sets him loose in the Virginia countryside in the 1970s. Put an Allman Brothers album on your turntable, and enjoy the ride." - Jamie Malanowski

"Like a classic rock song that comes on the radio, Ghostflowers will get stuck in your head and make you want to read this on repeat! A dark blast!" - Steve Stred