Water of Life: A Novelette

Did faeries spirit away the young moonshiner? Sean Joye can't help but wonder, yet he hopes for a more reasonable explanation. Fleeing to America in 1923 as soon as he'd mustered out of the army, Sean aims to put Ireland's civil war, his assassin past, and faerie attention behind him. But his one-time lover, Caleb, is missing. As Sean treks through a November ice storm in search of his friend, the forest itself bristles with fae ill intent, and a strange old mountain woman would just as soon shoot Sean as feed him squirrel stew. Calamity reigns unless he cracks the secret of Otter Springs and its water of life. "Caleb's whiskey is the best. Better than legit brands like Canadian Club, even," I said. "At home we call whiskey 'uisce beatha'- the water of life." Praise for Water of Life- "Delightfully peculiar." M. R. Sellars, Author of The Rowan Gant Investigations