The Drought

Can a baseball have a destiny?

1975, Game 6, bottom of the twelfth – the ball should have gone foul but it didn’t. It stayed fair.

Thirty years later, in the town of Junction, Texas, Luke Casteel crawls into a drainage pipe to retrieve a baseball stolen from Griffin Tanner’s private collection. He doesn’t come back. That day three lives change forever. One boy is dead, one struggles for his life and Jared Riley is thrust into a world where he must face an ancient evil.

Written with a blend of ...