Natalie Staaf debuts her first novel (TBN) in a series that dives into a fictional community of the Ozark Mountains in the American South.

Inspired by the Victorian Revival Towns of her childhood, Staaf’s prose of magical realism carries us to a town caught in the tight strappings of the evangelical Bible Belt, and the dangerous secrets buried in the community’s past.

This is a dark and fantastic trek through ancient mountain lore, monsters (both real and imagined), and superstitions that connect the pieces of a mystery that screams to be solved.

There are monsters, to be sure, in the town of Crescent Springs….but a darkness much older than this town awakens, when the words “cut me free” hang in the night air.

Every place has monsters. Welcome to Crescent Springs.