Nine Cold Miles
A cold country, a man who mends its ground, and the slow machinery by which a village turns competence into fate.
Nine Cold Miles is a series of literary folk-horror set on one stretch of fen, where the nearest capable man is asked, then expected, then owed — and the asking never quite stops. Each book is a self-contained walk out and back; the crew and the dread deepen across them. These are books about how a myth is made: not by lies, but by true things set down in a row until they become a summons.
Book 1 — The Nearest Man: Wat is the ditchward of Coldhope, a man with a trade and eleven years of reading the ground through his feet. When a boy goes into the Slack nine miles off and the village needs someone to go, Wat is simply the one who is there, and capable, and therefore — slowly, against every no he can name — the one who answers.
Book 1 The Nearest Man
Literary Fiction · 57,897 words
Book 2 Holding Wrong
Literary Fiction · 58,396 words
Book 3 Right When Made
Literary Fiction · 58,374 words
