Beneath the Veil

Successful sculptor Barry Ryan is in search of a blood relative for his bone marrow transplant; being adopted, he must travel to the town of Auraria where a genealogist has traced his ancestry. His adoptive sister Jen and her boyfriend Jackson join Barry on the trip, but what they find is a town abandoned. Except for the dead—who never really left.By day, the creatures that inhabit this town are but ghostly remnants of their former selves. At night, however, they transform into a physical—and lethal—form. There’s no escaping Auraria with all roads leading back to where they started, and Barry, Jen, and Jackson know that joining a band of survivors is their only hope. Struggling against his own dark urges, Barry flees to an old, abandoned plantation.It is at this plantation, Barry’s familial home, that he discovers his own tragic heritage. That his family is under the control of an evil entity called Evangeline due to a series of events initiated over a hundred years earlier by Ezra Rhodes, Barry’s distant relative. Mixing science fiction with horror, and the real with the supernatural, William McNally brings to life a world where the past maintains a firm grip on the present, and man’s own fatal desires are brought disturbingly to light. Readers of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will delight in this chillingly oppressive tale.

From the Back Cover

In search of a blood relative donor for a bone marrow transplant, Barry Ryan travels to his ancestral town of Auraria accompanied by his adoptive sister Jen and her boyfriend Jackson. What they find is not blood relations, but a ghost town where all roads lead back to where they started. Suddenly, Barry, Jen, and Jackson are in the fight of their lives, struggling to survive in a world inhabited by paranormal creatures intent on destroying the town's few survivors--a group they are now a part of. Fleeing the town and his own dark urges, Barry finds himself on an old, rundown plantation. Here the roots of his family's true past are revealed--a history more twisted than he ever could have imagined. In the tradition of The Walking Dead, William McNally has brought us a haunting story of survival, the supernatural, and man's fatal attraction to danger.

About the Author

William McNally has always felt drawn to dark and thought-provoking stories, an interest which heavily influenced his first two books, Four Corners Dark and Beneath the Veil. A visit to an eerie motorcycle shop in the middle of nowhere inspired The Knights of Moonshine. Surrounded by a veritable museum of odd pieces of motorized history, William wondered about the shop's customers and the secrets they might hide.   A former executive, William is a husband and animal advocate who lives in the mountains surrounding Dahlonega, Georgia. For updates on William's plans and upcoming events, visit his website at williammcnallybooks.com.

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