Meadowlarks

Financial stress binds a young widow to her lip-licking, ogle-eyed boss, and to urban violence that has taken her husband and might now take her nine-year-old son. After her husband is murdered by carjackers, Carolyn, her son, and their dog are forced to move in with Carolyn's all-knowing, hate-filled mother, leaving Carolyn desperate to find a safe way out. When her young son inherits her dead husband's estate, high in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains, Carolyn decides it's time to make the move onto a yet unseen cattle ranch - BUT - Carolyn Potter never anticipated death rising with the full moon.
Carolyn is thrilled by her son's immediate connection to his inheritance, a beautiful, high-mountain cattle ranch, a fantastic home, community church, excellent school, and friendly, helpful neighbors, and by her own newfound sense of security and purpose.
When she blocks the ritual slaughter of bull calves on their property, she unleashes a demon to attack their home and brutally murder two of their neighbors, shattering Carolyn's newfound sense of security.
Why can't she accept the bloody ritual? Will the rising moon take her life? Will it take her son's life?
MEADOWLARKS is a supernatural romp. If you like strong bonds of friendship, dark mystery, and blood-curdling terror, then you'll love Thomas Holladay's pulse-pounding thriller.
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Thomas Holladay studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute. He has completed six novels, Treasure, Meadowlarks, Deilberat Justice, Pursuit, The Birthday Box, and Comes the Call (in submission).  He has also written more than a dozen feature length screenplays. Many of his original ideas and movie moments have appeared in major motion pictures such as The Village, Red Riding Hood, End of the Earth, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and others, and on television's L.A. Firefighter.
Thomas's life has been filled with exciting adventures all over this planet. These include, but are not limited to, varsity football in high school, varsity water polo in college, U.S. Marine Corps, lifeguard on Miami Beach, professional firefighter, published architect, building contractor, sailing the Caribbean, mountain climbing, scuba diving, motor cycling, horseback riding, acting on stage, in film, and on television, international travel, guitar, folk singer, art, fashion model, teacher, and so much more. These experiences and those souls he has met along the way form the foundation for his story telling. He does extensive research in all genres prior to story and character development.
He now lives in Cebu, Philippines with his wife, Wilma, their daughter, Michelle Trixie, and their cat, Tiffany.