This is not a run of the mill thriller. Rather it hovers between reality and other dimensions. Not science fiction, but – what? Perhaps faith, or a reaching for something ‘other’ but is what is found the answer?  Read it and see. Believe me the pages will be turned rapidly…

Anyway, The Follower probes into the 21st century fascination with happiness and the ideas we choose to worship.

When her twin brother goes missing in Northern California, Vivian Owens follows his trail to the town of Mount Hookey, home to the followers of Telos: a mountain-worshipping cult that offers spiritual fulfilment to those who seek it.

While trying to navigate the town’s bizarre inhabitants and the seductive preaching of the initiates of Telos, Vivian will have to confront questions about herself, her family, and everything she thinks she knows about the world.

She quickly realises that her search is about far more than her missing brother – it is a quest for the secret of happiness itself.

To that end there is only one question she needs to answer: what is really at the top of Mount Hookey?

The follower by Nicholas Bowling. pb and eBook.  ‘Gripping, compelling and otherworldly’ David Quuantick, author of All my Colors and Night Train