Shadow Child:Tales Of From The Georgia Coast – Sixteen Works of Fiction & One True Story
by Stephen Doster
represented by agent Jeanie Pantelakis
published by Deer Hawk Publishing
release date December 2012
Shadow Child:Tales Of From The Georgia Coast – Sixteen Works of Fiction & One True Story chronicles a historical artifact and the people it impacted from 1597 to the 21st century. Each story is able to stand alone but is part of an intricate path that leads you home.
Spaning a number of eras in coastal Georgia, tThe stories vary in scope, ranging from historical fiction to the supernatural. A sub-plot threads throughout the book from beginning to end. In the first tale, Mission Asao (1597), a bronze bell is taken from a Spanish mission during an Indian uprising and is lost in what is present-day Gould’s Inlet on St. Simons Island. The bell is discovered by two slaves two-hundred-and-fifty years later in A Man Whut’s A Man. It hangs briefly from Christ Church after the Civil War in Casagrande and is returned to the Franciscan Order in the final story, Padre’s Run.