The Dead-Tossed Waves
Quotes from the Book
I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me.
My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's hope for us. We're just brief bursts of being on a tiny rock hurtling through the void. Our time is a gift and we shouldn't take it, or each other, for granted.
We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction.
Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?
What a mercilessly demented universe we inhabit.
About K.C. Jones
About the book
A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place.
It was just another day at the beach. And then the world ended.
Mike and Beth didn’t know each other existed before the night of the meteor shower. A melancholy film producer and a house sitter barely scraping by, chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked something more.
After a drunken and desperate one-night-stand, the two strangers awake to discover a surprise astronomical event has left widespread destruction in its wake. But the cosmic lightshow was only a part of something much bigger, and far more terrifying. When a set of lost car keys leaves them stranded on an empty stretch of Oregon coast, when their emergency calls go unanswered and inhuman screams echo from the dunes, when the rising tide reaches for the car and unspeak
Book details
- First published
- 2022
- Author
- K.C. Jones
- Genre
- Horror
- Goodreads rating
- 3.54 (4k ratings) →
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