Author Description

Rufus is a boogeyman tale. After her parents were murdered, Rose Grissom, made her first trip to Crockett County, Alabama to deal with the aftermath. When she went back home to Pennsylvania she earned her degree in criminal forensics, found work as an investigator for the D.A.'s office in Pittsburgh, got married, had a baby boy, and never imagined she would ever return to Alabama.Then one day five years after the murders she got a mysterious package in the mail from an anonymous sender in Crockett. The contents of the package insinuated into her normally rational mind a terrifying nightmare about a boogeyman named Rufus who haunts a cursed swamp known as Hell's Back Forty, and an overwhelming fear that the young man who murdered her parents was part of a Rufus cult that was now threatening her family.Rose decides to return to Alabama to find the truth, and when she arrives, they tell her the same thing. Rufus isn't real. It's just a story. The killer acted alone. There's no cult.But while she's there, a child is kidnapped by a man with a sack. And whatever hell was in Hell's Back Forty suddenly breaks loose.