Michael McDowell 
Blackwater I: The Flood [EPUB ebook] 
The first book in the classic southern gothic horror saga, the million-copy selling phenomenon

Discover the gothic horror phenomenon that is sweeping across Europe, with over 2 million copies sold’RIVETING, TERRIFYING…JUST ABSOLUTELY GREAT’ STEPHEN KINGAs the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys — a family of rich landowners — must confront the tide of damage caused by the flood. Led by Mary-Love, the powerful matriarch, and by Oscar, her devoted son, the family must pick itself back up. But what they haven’t anticipated is the sudden appearance of Elinor Dammert — a mysterious but seductive young woman with a troubling past. Her sole ambition appears to be to infiltrate the very heart of the Caskey clan…’Beyond any trace of a doubt, one of the absolutely best writers of horror’ Peter Straub’One of the genre s most underrated writers’ Poppy Z. Brite