Kirkus Reviews calls today’s literary masterpiece, “Mellifluous, lyrical…with a darkness that creeps like kuzu.” It currently has a whopping 4.9 star rating and readers are raving about today’s feature book, The Kestrel Waters: A Tale of Love and Devil by Randy Thornhorn. 
A Little About The Kestrel Waters:
The Brothers Brass. Two young bluegrass singers (with echoes of The Everly Brothers). Raised in Savannah by the sea, together, these boys’ voices chime like heavenly bells.
The oldest brother, Kestrel, falls in love with a wild little thing who hides up in the trees—a bit of a girl named Bettilia. A girl raised by a flesh and blood devil on a haunted mountain called Riddle Top.
Soon all the Family Brass falls for Bettilia. She touches Kestrel, she touches everyone. And they touch sweet Bettilia, forever. Then comes that fateful day when, deep in his own heart, Kestrel says I do to his own devil.
About the Author:
Randy Thornhorn is a teller of many tender and eerie tales, including this one—and its prequel Wicked Temper. Most of Mr. Thornhorn’s stories occur in a displaced world, a fable-infested Southern region some would surely deem unsafe. He visits often, sometimes stays the night. Other nights he might be found on a wooded hilltop somewhere east of Montgomery in the land of Alabama.
Praise for The Kestrel Waters:
“I was haunted throughout…a mesmerizing…extraordinary work of the imagination. Thornhorn, where the hell have you been?” ~ William Peter Blatty (author of The Exorcist)
“Captures the tragedy of romantic and familial love better than any story I have ever read.” ~ Janeiro Bento
“The Kestrel Waters is one of those books that leaves the reader with an emotional hangover. It’s difficult to start reading another book, because one’s feelings are still so influenced by the book just read…In a way I can’t explain, The Kestrel Waters is like music…” ~ Joy Williams