The war should have ended years ago.
Instead, August Atwell hunts Confederates through a bayou where time slips, monsters prowl the mangroves, and forgotten places refuse to stay buried. When a wealthy merchant hires him to recover a missing boy taken by the mysterious Andrinians, August reunites with his oldest companion — the irreverent, sharp-tongued wanderer known only as Antelope — and heads for the frontier settlement of Ironhale.
Their investigation takes an unexpected turn when they recruit an unlikely guide: Gawayle, a deeply devout teenage paladin stranded in rusted armor and blind faith. Earnest, awkward, and desperate to become the hero his religion promised he could be, Gawayle quickly finds himself caught between hardened survivors, supernatural horrors, and truths his church was never meant to survive.
But the bayou changes people.
As violence spreads across Ironhale and old loyalties begin to fracture, the search for one missing child unravels into something far larger — a struggle over faith, identity, vengeance, and what kind of future can be built from the wreckage of inherited sins.
Haunted by monsters both human and otherwise, Amberwaves is a frontier moral tragedy where supernatural pressure exposes what people choose to become.
A literary weird western blending dark fantasy, Southern Gothic atmosphere, dark humor, and psychological drama, Amberwaves explores the stories people tell themselves to survive — and the terrible cost of believing them.
