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The Rider's Call

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Overview

In famine-struck Kilbride, people are already dying quietly, of hunger, cold, and the slow humiliation of debt. Then a different death arrives, clean and immediate.

Father Declan S illeabh in hears the first warning at dusk: a single sharp crack from the hilltop ring fort, like bone snapped through the air. Minutes later, Brigid N Mhurch staggers to St. Brigid's Church swearing she saw a headless rider in the fog, a horse with eyes like coals, and a whip that sounds like a spine breaking. Declan tries to pray it away.

Inside the church, a voice speaks Brigid's name, not as comfort, as verdict. She dies at the altar without a hand touching her, and a bruise blooms around her throat like a rope remembered by skin.

The village calls it the Dullahan, the headless one who rides when the land is wronged and the debt is still open. Declan calls for reason, for medicine, for order, but the evidence will not behave: a frost-marked handprint appears on the church door from the inside, and hoofprints show up where no horse has walked.

To stop the deaths, Declan has to step outside doctrine and into the older ledger the parish has avoided for generations. Because the Rider does not need belief. It needs one thing only: a name answered in fear.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798288785511
  • ISBN-10: 9798288785511
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: June 2025
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.71 pounds
  • Page Count: 238

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