S K Epperson

On The Mountain of the White Monkey S K Epperson

At a haunted house on Halloween, British transfer student Jordan Peale meets a pretty teen in foster-care named Caley. After a gruesome car accident, she disappears. Five years later, he meets her again in a diner outside Brownsville, Texas, and now her pretty face is scarred with long scratch marks and she calls herself Hannah. Jordan is on assignment to film a web series and is slated to cover the annual event in Catemaco, Mexico at the foot of The Mountain of the White Monkey. He tells Hannah he remembers her but she denies her identity and warns him against going to Catemaco. He wants to know why, but she won't tell him. Later, after he and his ex-surfer cameraman Martin battle thieves, witches, spiders, snakes, and a large hair-covered man whose calling card is serpentine patterns of mud, Jordan begins to suspect this girl is not just part of the story, but that she is the story. And now he's part of it too, because he's crazy in love with her, but one doesn't just fall for the daughter of the devil and expect to start picking out china patterns...or go on living.