The Mystery at Stump Hole

Do you know what Doomsday Dates are?On June 6, 1962, twelve-year-old Nick and his younger triplet sisters were on an outing with their grandfather when the triplet girls were tragically killed. On that same June 6 date, nine years later, Nick was in Vietnam and received a “Dear John” letter from his first love, Jeanny, and two months after that, on August 8, he learned that his childhood best friend and Battle Buddy, Kayle, had been officially declared MIA. With an altered dissociated personality and suffering from PTSD, Nick returns home to Stump Hole, filled with anger, depression, desperation, and confusion. He marries too quickly, and a son and triplet daughters follow. When those triplet girls are killed in a housefire on August 8, 1984, Nick’s father tells him about the deaths of Nick’s triplet aunts, who drowned on April 4, 1928, and reveals a dark history that strongly suggests the possibility of a family curse.With the unwavering support of his first love, Jeanny (who is in a miserable marriage living 2500 miles away), and the steadfast loyalty of his best friend, Kayle (who shows up as an apparition), Nick embarks on a journey to unravel the origin of the Doomsday-Dated pattern that has held his family in a century-long curse, predicts the date of the next tragedy, and plans to stop it by killing his own son.The Mystery at Stump Hole is a coming-of-age paranormal love story of desperate measures culminating in a gripping race against fate and time. The mounting urgency, the psychological twists, and the astonishing coincidences that keep occurring all prove that “A lot of things can happen in ten minutes.” Read more