The Piaculum

Hi,

I just wanted to tell people about my new book, The Piaculum. Check out the website at http://www.rich-gray.com

The Piaculum takes place on a desert landscape where a group of Christians called the Mone and a blood worshiping cult known as the Kathe are ensnared in religious tension. The Kathe believe that salvation can only be achieved by drinking blood from men born with a rare skin condition known as the white-mark. The Piaculum follows the life of Cearl, a man with the white-mark born to a group of poor Mone farmers. Cearl has a good life with a wife and two children he deeply loves, but he finds himself consumed by memories of being tortured by the Kathe as a child, as well as an overwhelming feeling that his god wants something from him. When a group of Kathe come to Cearl's village looking for human sacrifices, Cearl comes face to face with his childhood memories and makes choices that could destroy his life.

"The Piaculum is a horror story that gets inside your head and remains there long after you put the book down." Alicia Karen Elkins GWN (Gotta Write Network)

"This novel will entertain, and change the view of your world," Legend Books, Book Review Team.

"Amazing" "Richard Gray has produced a wonderfully dark--yet tear-jerking story," Tim Johnson, author of Twisted Oak: Eyes of Discernment.