โFolks say evil canโt cross water,โ she told the boy, โwhich is why islands is ripe with all kindsโa inbred nastiness.โ
โSweetpatch Island, South Carolina, 1971. For young Boo Taylor itโs a land of lush salt marshes and sun-soaked beaches, rich in history and folkloreโyet steeped in superstition and hiding a terrifying secret.
After twenty years of self-imposed exile, Boo is summoned home to Sweetpatch upon news of his fatherโs strange death to face the friends and enemies of his youth, including his long-forsaken love. It seems everything he ran away fromโthe bigotry, the violence, the betrayalโhas been buried under a modern landscape of golf courses and luxury hotels. Yet his homecoming reawakens the ancient forces that haunt the island and seek to right a centuries-old crime.
Scott Fadโs Southern Gothic masterwork, King of Nod, layers time and secrets in an intricate pattern of half-truths and glimpses of redemption to unravel the islandโs great mysteryโand its inexorable connection to Booโs own fate.