Description
<p><span><span>Shakespeare's Witches tell Banquo, "Thou Shalt 'Get Kings Though Thou Be None". Though Banquo is murdered, his son Fleance gets away. What happened to Fleance? What Kings? As Shakespeare's audience apparently knew, Banquo was the ancestor of the royal Stewart line. But the road to kingship had a most inauspicious beginning, and we follow Fleance into exile and death, bestowing the Witches' prophecy on his illegitimate son Walter. Born in Wales and raised in disgrace, Walter's efforts to understand Banquo's murder and honor his lineage take him on a long and treacherous journey through England and France before facing his destiny in Scotland.</span></span></p>
Story Behind The Book
Cold Sweat is my personal (and admittedly unusual) tribute to James Brown, one of my favorite musical artists of all time. I took the titles of three James Brown songs--"Night Train," "The Big Payback," and "Soul Power"--and created horror stories around them. All three stories were written between August and September of 2011. They are available in eBook form only, but I hope to release them as part of a new short story collection in the future.
