A contemporary Western Noir. The Rain King is the story of, George Washington Parker, a 107 year Comanche Indian, and the way he remembers his turn of the century travels through Oklahoma Territory with Ex-Confederate outlaw, Henry Faro as they pursue a genocidal preacher known as The Rain King. "The American Western redefined a shade darker. The elements of supernatural make it all the more enjoyable, and anything but traditional." Livius Nedin: Booked Podcast.

The Rain King

Literature & Fiction

Helmick, Kevin Lynn

Genre Fiction

Heartland Press

A gritty, Southern Gothic morality tale, this novel reveals that the high cost of hard living is brutally hard dying. Billy Keyhoe&rsquo;s luck just ran out: after beating his girl to a bloody pulp and being shot by the clerk at Earl&rsquo;s 66, he takes off in his daddy&rsquo;s beat-up &rsquo;65 Caddy, leaving all his troubles in the rearview. At a crossroads on the way toward West Texas from Georgia, he picks up Feather, a beautiful hitchhiker who seems to know more about Billy than he knows about himself. The farther they go, the more he is drawn to Feather; but he unfortunately discovers that even true love cannot save him and he may have gone too far to ever make it back.

Driving Alone: A Love Story

Blank Slate Press

Failed Hollywood screenwriter Mark West loses his contract, agent, car and girlfreind all in the same day he learns his father has been injured and mother killed in car accident in the small midwestern town he thought he'd left behind forever. Broke, desperate and nothing on the horizon, Mark boards a plane and returns to reconnect with his dying town and estranged family in this fish out of water, black comedy, rural noir, of life, death, depression, self awareness, and the depth that family loyalties can transend.

Heartland Gothic

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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