Passover

There’s something horrifically dark and biblical about the murders, occurring house by house and involving first-born sons. Only the Sheltons dare remain in the village of Zebulon, Virginia, on the night of Passover, with only the county’s small sheriff’s department to protect them from a baffling evil stirred up by the holocaust of another era. Proceeded by a re-emergence of the biblical plagues that beset Egypt, a tormented and pain-wracked ghost storms the bloodied windows and doors of the Shelton’s huge home with Death Angel fury. Characters fall, one by one, scarecrows from the fields become automatons whose fingers spout flame. Cats die and re-animate. The Sheltons have resources: intelligence, a dedicated sheriff, a grandmother’s wisdom and revelations about the supernatural, but can the family learn to work together by nightfall? Passover is a beautifully written modern novel in real time, covering the day and early evening. It is not only a supernatural thriller; it is also a domestic drama, a study of fear, and a love story featuring an eldest son and a young ghost that will charm. Authors Frances Williams and Robert P. Arthur convince us that valor and logic can only bring us so far, and faith can bring us home.

Author Bio:
Frances Williams, aka Aphrodite Anagnost (given name) is a physician and horse trainer. Her first employer was her horse riding teacher; and her second, her parents, who entertained Vegas acts in their barn-turned-restaurant next to the once-famous Warwick Musical Theatre. Currently a creative writing student in the MFA program at Wilkes University, she began her studies as an actress, then switched to medicine. She became a family doctor, medical bariatrician, hospice director, and local medical examiner. While living in San Francisco, she starred in the local cable TV serial, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CHICKIE DARLIN. She is the copy editor for XENOPHON PRESS, dedicated to the preservation of classical riding. She won an Alice Braganza award for nonfiction for THE RITUAL BATH, a poetry slam for RESURRECTION DAY, and is now a semifinalist in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest for her first novel, MEMOIR OF A DEATH ANGEL, for which she won a VCCA fellowship. She lives on a horse farm in rural Virginia with her horse-listener husband and extraordinary sons, Jack and Max.

Robert Peebles Arthur is a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, a playwright, a critic, a director, and a professor. He has written and published over twenty books and plays and 1,500 articles on the arts. A finalist for Poet Laureate of Virginia in 2008 and 2010, he remains best known for his book of poems, Hymn to the Chesapeake, the best-selling book in the history of Road Publishers. Eleven of his plays have been pegged “poem-plays,” a genre possibly created by Arthur. Additionally, Arthur has co-founded two national literary journals: BlackWater Review and Lady Jane’s Miscellany. He has been a literary and/or drama critic for five newspapers and magazines, including Port Folio Magazine in Virginia Beach. Arthur is a writer-in-residence in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and a former writer-in-residence of Beverly Cordoba Duane’s Second Wind Dance Company in Virginia Beach, Virginia.