Ninety-Eight Sabers

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 55 62 1)>Family secrets. High strangeness. Reality TV.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 55 62 1)>The Trenholm clan helped found Lower Congaree South Carolina. Their land is cursed. Their abusive patriarch has croaked. Only heirs who attend the funeral will inherit.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 55 62 1)>But when Truluck Trenholm suffered his eventually-fatal stroke oldest son Ash turned the haunted plantation into an enormously successful reality show-with all the attendant ethical issues of profiting off its legacy. Forced to tolerate the intrusion of California producers grip guys and cameras toting a ton of childhood trauma Ash's brother and cousins have plenty of animosity for each other along with a strong aversion to the paranormal shenanigans of their childhood home. But when Truluck's funeral goes pear-shaped and the cousins are cut out of his will Hollywood producers offer the deal of a lifetime: they'll turn the Trenholms into witchy Kardashians with a Southern drawl.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 55 62 1)>If the cousins walk away they'll lose everything. But the farm's high strangeness keeps getting stranger. Something's happening on Cypress Bend. And filming might make it worse...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 55 62 1)>Combining the literary tradition of William Faulkner Michael McDowell and Octavia Butler with the shimmered lunacy of John Berendt's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 55 62 1)>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 55 62 1)> Elizabeth Broadbent's Ninety-Eight Sabers is a Southern Gothic novel about a family determined to stick together as history threatens to tear them apart. This is a book that asks how we live with the past-and how we accept our responsibility for it in the present.</span></p>