Godfall

Winner of the 2024 Midwest Book Award Gold Winner for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book Award Longlisted for 2024 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation-but the end doesnt come. In fact, it isnt an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops down, seemingly dead, outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed the giant, its arrival transforms the red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists-and a murderer. As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought hed be keeping the peace among the same people hed known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists in tiger masks or struggling to control a town hall meeting about the construction of a mosque. As a series of brutal, bizarre murders strikes close to home, Blunt throws himself into the hunt for a killer who seems connected to the Giant. With bodies piling up and tensions in Little Springs mounting, he realizes that in order to find the answers he needs, he must first reconcile his old worldview with the town he now lives in-before its too late.