Join us at Subterranean Books for an evening of Ozark horror as we host local author and professor Allison Cundiff for a book launch and signing for her novel, The Mysterious Women of J Road. Refreshments will be provided.
Some wounds never fully close.
After suspecting her husband has been hexed in Ozark hill country, Lillian Cedars goes deep into the backwoods to seek an antidote. What she finds is a world with a dark and malevolent past, where hill folk and their acolytes turn on anyone who dares enter their territory, and when Lillian encounters them, she learns not only their capacity for evil, but her own as well.
The Mysterious Women of J Road presents the collision of superstition and the supernatural in the remote and tangled mountains of southern Missouri. It is a world of secrets whispered between women for generations, women whose ways and whose burdens define who they are, what they stand for, and how far they’ll wade into the murk of danger to protect their kin.
Allison Cundiff’s publications include the novel Hey Pickpocket (2025, JackLeg Press), two books of poetry: Otherings (2016, Golden Antelope Press), and In Short, A Memory of the Other on a Good Day, co-authored with Steven Schreiner, (2014, Golden Antelope Press), and two chapbooks: Snapshot (2023, Bottlecap Press), and Just to See How It Feels (2018, Word Press), She is a graduate of the University of Missouri (MA English Literature, MEd Secondary Education) and Truman State University (BA English Literature). She teaches at Lindenwood University and at Parkway North High School.
The reading will be immediately followed by an optional writing workshop. One ticket to the workshop is complimentary with the purchase of each copy of The Mysterious Women of J Road from Subterranean Books. Reserve your ticket to the workshop by purchasing a copy listed below.