The Burning Time — J.G. Faherty

2014 Finalist, International Thriller Writers Thriller Award

Elder Gods knocking at the gates of reality. Cthulhulian monsters devouring innocent women in the river. Suicides, murders, and mayhem rampant in the streets.

Welcome to Hastings Mills, where an agent of Evil is driving a town to madness and only one man knows how to stop it. But can he defeat his ageless enemy before Hastings Mills is nothing but a smoking ruin and the townspeople become unwilling blood sacrifices to the Old Ones? With only the help of a young woman and her teenage son, he will have to use all of his arcane knowledge to thwart his adversary and prevent the final apocalypse.