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About the Book
When 18 year-old Laural embarks on her midwest college odyssey she envisions promising new beginnings. Instead, her lifeline perilously crosses paths with a murderous malcontent. Blossoming love and collegiate discovery risk certain demise, poisoned by weaponized milkweed toxin, and a psychopath’s animosity toward humankind.
Teaming with her track mate Jackie, a pageant trained, Krav Maga ready renaissance woman, Laurel must navigate a treacherous web of secrets, spun with venomous intent, and artistic deception.
Inside a campus where nature can heal or kill, and faith must be nurtured to survive, the truth may be the most poisonous thing of all.
Stay tuned for further adventures of Laural N. Hardy in C. Scott Howe’s new thriller, The Knives of Northcastle.
In her first year of medical school, Laural crosses paths with a barbarous Butcher, who is pruning the city’s populace.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife when a fisherman‘s net ensnares a perfectly preserved foot captaining its faux diamond- studded tennis shoe across the English Channel hell-bent on escaping Northcastle and the bloody river Tyne.
While skeletons sink and cannot swim, they do not drown-without a story!
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Themes & Atmosphere
About the Author
C. Scott Howe MD is a writer, an artist, and a former mender of the ill and tragically injured.
With his wife, Julie, four daughters were raised in the high plains of Colorado – all strong female characters themselves.
Blending medical insight with human nature and miracles of the natural world, Howe crafts dark, character – driven stories filled with suspense, survival, mystery, and redemption. His work combines, psychological depth, botanical intrigue and emotional resilience into immersive literary thrillers.
Dr. Howe illustrated the children’s book entitled The Dragon Mountain written by his mother, Darlene Howe.
Other Work
The Dragon Mountain
A children’s book written by Darlene Howe and illustrated by C. Scott Howe.
This is whimsical retelling of the Cheyenne Indians legend of a great flood and the brave dragon that became a mountain saving the drowning people.
Enter the Odyssey
Some truths are better left buried.
But Laurel Hardy is about to dig them up.