the Offering: What Happens to People Nobody Would Miss

What happens to the people nobody would miss?Peter Holler is a divorced private investigator with no family, no friends, and an apartment that would take a week for anyone to notice was empty. When a desperate couple hires him to find their son - a college-aged backpacker who vanished in rural Portugal - Peter follows the trail from Lisbon into the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, one of the most isolated regions in Western Europe.The village of Vale Fundo is dying. Forty residents, mostly old, mostly silent. But they welcome Peter with warmth he hasn't felt in years. The local woman who runs the café listens to him. The old matriarch brings him food. The young farmer translates and drives him around. For the first time in a long time, Peter feels seen.He doesn't know that there is no case. The missing son was never missing. The grieving parents are not grieving. Every clue was planted. Every kind face is performing. The investigation is a delivery mechanism - and Peter is the package.Beneath the church, beneath the chestnut groves, beneath centuries of Christian veneer, something ancient is waiting. Something that has been fed before. Something that is hungry.The Offering is a slow-burn folk horror novel about isolation, belonging, and what the land demands in return for keeping the valley alive.For fans of The Wicker Man, Midsommar, and The Ritual.Visit carrionpress.com for more titles from Carrion Press.

Pagina's: 332, Paperback, Independently published