WHAT IF ALL THAT STOOD BETWEEN YOU AND HELL WAS A MATCH?
Emily and Bobby Jessup stand accused of first-degree arson. Their small coal-mining community of Karlgarin has branded them criminals and sociopaths. But something led Bobby and Emily to leave their two young children with a sitter while they embarked on a fire-bug spree. That something was a secret they'd promised to protect. When Emily impulsively breaks her promise while under cross-examination, a bizarre tale begins to unfold of the night she followed Bobbie and discovered his secret.
Inspired by true-life headlines revealed in Susan May's fascinating postscript From the Imagination Vault. Behind the Fire is an extraordinary 130 page complete novelette of the random appearance of frightening "black things," and one couple's battle to protect their town from these desperate and dangerous creatures.
Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will delight in this horror thriller-with-a-twist, inspired by true events. By the author readers are naming the next Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)and the female Stephen King.
Bonus short story and fifty pages of extra story-telling.