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Blood in the Garden: How One Family Tried to Bury a Monster and Unleashed a War
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ISBN13: 9798274427838
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 19 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 19 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the sweltering pines of Cold Branch, Georgia, the ground keeps its own kind of memory.
When Earl Buck Talbert, brutal patriarch, feared mechanic, and quiet tyrant, vanishes without a trace, no one in town bothers to ask where he went. The Talbert family insists he ran off. The tomato patch behind his cinderblock house says otherwise.
When Earl Buck Talbert, brutal patriarch, feared mechanic, and quiet tyrant, vanishes without a trace, no one in town bothers to ask where he went. The Talbert family insists he ran off. The tomato patch behind his cinderblock house says otherwise.
Nineteen days after his disappearance, Buck's grandson CJ finds himself at the center of a tightening storm, one woven from blood, lies, and the kind of silence that gets passed down like inheritance. His mother, Darlene, drifts through the house in a bleach-soaked haze; his sister Lacey scrubs floorboards until her hands bleed; and his stepfather Walt repeats the family motto: Some things stay buried if you want to live long enough to forget them.
But the soil of Cold Branch won't keep its secrets. Not from the sheriff circling the property. Not from the neighbors who hear things at night. Not from the ghosts under the tomato rows, or the ones in the Talbert bloodline.
As the summer heat rises, the truth begins to rot in the open. When the first whisper spreads that maybe the Talberts didn't just lose a monster, they buried one, Cold Branch turns into a battleground of kin, vengeance, and the stories families tell to survive their own dead.
Dark, lyrical, and unflinching, Blood in the Garden is a Southern Gothic tale of generational violence and the curse of trying to hide what the earth refuses to forget.
But the soil of Cold Branch won't keep its secrets. Not from the sheriff circling the property. Not from the neighbors who hear things at night. Not from the ghosts under the tomato rows, or the ones in the Talbert bloodline.
As the summer heat rises, the truth begins to rot in the open. When the first whisper spreads that maybe the Talberts didn't just lose a monster, they buried one, Cold Branch turns into a battleground of kin, vengeance, and the stories families tell to survive their own dead.
Dark, lyrical, and unflinching, Blood in the Garden is a Southern Gothic tale of generational violence and the curse of trying to hide what the earth refuses to forget.
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