St Petroc in Cornwall is a far cry from the picturesque villages in tv shows or the happy places which draw holiday makers to the county.
This is a dark and boding village were the locals dislike anyone not born and bred there so Tom Killgannon who is working in the one and only pub is not made welcome by many.
He is there with a new identity, was once an undercover cop and is now in a witness protection programme and apart from Pearl, whose parents own the pub, very few even bother to give him the time of day.
Kyle Tanner is a student out for a good time with a couple of his mates when he gets drunk and is separated from them and a young girl from the nearby hippie commune picks him up in a van and Kyle will never be seen again.
Lila is a 17 year old runaway and member of the commune and it doesn’t take long for her path to cross with Tom’s.
This is a book full of believable characters, some the reader will have sympathy for and a lot of others who are particularly unpleasant but the story moves at a fast pace in a fight over good and evil.
This is a dark and boding village were the locals dislike anyone not born and bred there so Tom Killgannon who is working in the one and only pub is not made welcome by many.
He is there with a new identity, was once an undercover cop and is now in a witness protection programme and apart from Pearl, whose parents own the pub, very few even bother to give him the time of day.
Kyle Tanner is a student out for a good time with a couple of his mates when he gets drunk and is separated from them and a young girl from the nearby hippie commune picks him up in a van and Kyle will never be seen again.
Lila is a 17 year old runaway and member of the commune and it doesn’t take long for her path to cross with Tom’s.
This is a book full of believable characters, some the reader will have sympathy for and a lot of others who are particularly unpleasant but the story moves at a fast pace in a fight over good and evil.