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Nephilim, Debut Novel from Wade Thomas, Out Now!
“I was here when the world was wet…”
On a summer morning in 1892, the Massachusetts village of Sunbury awakes to find two newly buried bodies unearthed and stolen from its cemetery. Between the open graves is a slaughtered horse.
New residents Raymond Stanton and his daughter Rachel, both still grieving the death of Raymond's wife and Rachel's brother, find themselves drawn to the heart of the danger that has begun to beset Sunbury at night. Raymond and the town’s doctor, Josiah Hall, discover that this is not the first time this has happened in Sunbury, while Rachel finds that there is indeed a wickedness dwelling within the woods at the edge of town. And it is after her.
Wade’s first novel, Nephilim, the story of Sunbury and what happened in and around the town in 1892, is now out from Stone Table Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock.
“Sometimes a man has an idea, and sometimes an idea has a man. In this case the man was Marvin Branson, and the idea was nested in the branches of a greed that had yet to even whiff satisfaction. It was no coincidence that Marvin Branson came to Sunbury when he did. Whether or not he was aware of it is largely irrelevant. What matters is that what he was selling was in high demand. That is, what he had in the satchel he carried with him in his right hand.”
From Nephilim, Chapter 3
About Wade
Wade Thomas has been a church planter, middle school teacher, lay pastor, business manager, and throughout, a writer. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and their six children.
