The following review was written by STERLING PEARCE.

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Ronnie Day has enough to worry about for a 13 year-old boy. His parents are always fighting, and he spends most of his time trying not to look stupid in front of Melanie Ward. Why does he have to put up with his pest of a brother, Tim, wandering off through the graveyard of the Red Church?

All his life Ronnie has been hearing stories about the ‘hanged preacher‘ and something that lived up in the bell tower. He had only half heartedly believed it until the “red raw burger hand” of Boonie Houck grabbed him from behind a tombstone, and something flutters in the bell tower.

At that moment, Ronnie knows all hell had broken loose, and it is in the bell tower watching him “with liver for eyes!” Now he really needs Jesus in his heart if he is going to survive.

As murder after gruesome murder shakes the sleepy town of Whispering Pines, Sheriff Frank Little and Detective Sergeant Sheila Storie search the hills for clues all of which lead them back to the red church and it’s new owner, Archer McFall.

McFall has reclaimed the old building to house his new church, The Temple of Two Sons. Archer and his congregation are hell bent on making way for the Second Son. Now is the time to avenge himself and rise to his place of glory and nothing is going to stop him…

In his first novel, “The Red Church”, Scott Nicholson lets the reader experience first hand the paralyzing struggle of a young man searching for his faith while dealing face to face with pure evil.

You will travel with Mama Betas she does God’s work and listen to her eerie conversations, held entirely within her own mind.

You will feel hot blood drip across your hands as Archer McFall makes the sacrifices, “for sacrifice is the currency of God.”

“The Red Church” immediately seizes the reader and takes him on a ride of twists and turns that could never be expected. Nicholson’s rich descriptions of the Appalachian setting, gripping plot, and his full-fleshed characters will entangle the reader and hold him prey until the staggering ending, reminiscent of Lovecraft, himself.

Experience “The Red Church” for your self and you, too will be spreading its gospel.

Sterling Pearce

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