Deliver Us: A Southern Gothic Horror That Burrows Under Your Skin (Southern Reckonings)

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About Deliver Us: A Southern Gothic Horror That Burrows Under Your Skin (Southern Reckonings)

He should have turned around when the pavement quit. Cory Carter is only trying to get through rural Georgia when a storm knocks his truck off a backwoods road and leaves him stranded in red mud. No signal. No houses for miles. No way out before dark. Then he sees a light. The woman who opens the door calls herself Miss Lenn. She offers coffee, shelter, and scripture. She is polite as a church lady, calm as a grave, and careful with every word. By morning, Cory’s truck is gone. The windows are nailed shut. The phone doesn’t work. His wallet disappears. The sheriff already knows where he is—and tells him to stay put. Then Miss Lenn starts calling him by another name. Charlie. A dead boy. A missing son. A story this county has been waiting years to finish. The longer Cory stays in that house, the more the world outside seems to agree with her. His clothes are replaced. His papers are taken. His face is studied, cleaned, corrected. Every act of kindness becomes another way to erase him. Miss Lenn does not need chains to keep him. She has prayers. She has witnesses. She has a town willing to mistake cruelty for mercy if the lie sounds holy enough. And when Cory realizes she is not acting alone, escape stops being the only question. He has to stay himself long enough to survive. Deliver Us is a Southern Gothic psychological horror novel about captivity, religious obsession, and the terrifying cost of becoming someone else’s answer to a prayer.

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