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The Kelpie
A black horse waits at the ford.
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CHERRY FALLS, WEST VIRGINIA • THE UPPER ELK RIVER
THE RIVER TOOK HER FATHER.
NOW SOMETHING WAITS IN THE SHALLOWS.
Rhea Vance, thirteen, returns at dawn to the river pool where her father vanished. She carries his hickory staff and the memory of the river rules he taught her.
Then a sleek black horse appears at the ford, and a boy with wet hair stands in the shallows. A retired biologist’s decades of survey records suggest the pool has been taking more than one family’s grief.
The shallows are not the same as safe ground.
- Folklore
- Dark folkloric mystery
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- A complete standalone case
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- CHERRY FALLS, WEST VIRGINIA • THE UPPER ELK RIVER
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