Son of Destruction

By Kit Reed

A spellbinding American Southern Gothic thriller with a supernatural twist - a past secret has the power to destroy the future . . . - When Lucy Cartaret dies, her journalist son Dan returns to her hometown, Fort Jude, Florida, in search of his real father, claiming he's here to investigate the mysterious deaths of three elderly women. Spontaneous human combustion, experts say. But why? Surely it's more than coincidence - and what links these deaths to Dan's mother? It soon becomes clear that something terrible happened during his mother's last year in town, thirty years before. But the social elite of Fort Jude are tight-lipped. The families who run the town will do anything to protect their own - anything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers
• Release date: Feb 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780103563

Kit Reed

Kit Reed was the author of more than a dozen novels; her last book, Mormama, was published in 2017. Her short novel Little Sisters of the Apocalypse and the collection Weird Women, Wired Women were both finalists for the Otherwise/James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Her short fiction was published in various anthologies and magazines including Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Yale Review, and The Kenyon Review. She also wrote psychological thrillers under the name Kit Craig. She died in 2017.