Gelding Rock

Stewart's Camp, California, is just a tiny, rusty place, forgotten amongst the hills of the Gold Country, but it's also a town with a past. And the past tends to visit the present-with or without invitation.

Late on January 3, 1997, charming deviant, Hartford Daniels, finds himself trapped in the wilderness beyond Stewart's Camp. With mudslides blocking the road in both directions, he seeks shelter in the presumed ghost town of Gelding Rock. But Gelding Rock is no true ghost town. It is populated by a single forgotten old woman.

Thirteen years later, two preteens in Stewart's Camp are investigating the mystery of #25 Main Street-the house that was washed into the ravine by a mudslide years earlier. To the chagrin of local adults, Jacob Moses and Ruthie keep digging around in the debris pile below town and finding intriguing artifacts: scandalous women's underwear, furniture with hooves, exotic stuffed and mounted animal heads.

When the kids uncover a rusted Jaguar, the grown-ups are forced to reconcile with the past, knowing the car once belonged to the only client of the infamous Alpha Male Inn who didn't make it home again. The cops came looking for Hartford Daniels back then and got nowhere. Now they are back, making a due-diligence effort to discover the fate of the young man who was seen driving toward Stewart's Camp on January 3, 1997, and was never heard from again.

Book two of the Stewart's Camp Saga, Gelding Rock is a riveting story about buried secrets, unaddressed guilt, and two dangerously damaged souls forced into a precarious proximity to one another.