Vengeance! at Stone Creek - signed by the author

Alan O'Hashi's second historical fiction novel is a haunting, intimate reckoning with memory, injustice, and survival. When an aging man returns to the place where his childhood was forever altered, buried truths begin to surface—about family, loyalty, and the quiet violence of being erased by history. Set against the long shadow of wartime incarceration, the novel follows a life shaped by loss and restraint, where grief hardens into resolve and patience becomes its own form of resistance. What begins as reflection slowly tightens into a moral question: when justice is denied for decades, what does vengeance really mean—and who ultimately pays its price? Both spare and deeply human, Vengeance at Stone Creek explores how communities endure, how memory refuses to stay buried, and how the past waits patiently for reckoning. It is a story about survival without sentimentality, anger without spectacle, and the fragile line between remembrance and retribution.