Midnight Is the Darkest Hour : A Novel

What do you fear most in the dark? The Low Man...or yourself? Acclaimed author Ashley Winstead returns in paperback!

In a small bayou town in Louisiana, people fear God's wrath and local superstitions – like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure who steals into sinners’ homes to kill them on moonless nights. The daughter of the town’s fire-and-brimstone preacher is not immune to the fear. But when a skull found deep in the swamp reunites her with a man with a dark reputation, she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her town from evil: not the horrors rumored to dwell in the swamp, but the real evil that walks among them.

Midnight Is the Darkest Hour is a powerful and chilling examination of obsessive love, the way stories shape us, and what happens when the best choice we can make is to unleash our own dark beasts.

Content warning: sexual assault, violence, gender essentialism, misogyny