Blood Moon Rider

"I tried to block the legend of the blood moonthat it signaled the death of someone close to youfrom my mind."

Harley Wallace has suffered through an incredible run of bad luck. His father died fighting in the Pacific during World War II, and his stepmother abandoned him. The Marines refused to take him, and now he is kicked off a bus in the middle of Nowhere, Floridawhere he celebrates his fourteenth birthday as a prisoner in a hick jail. As if that were not bad enough, Harley is placed in the custody of his unwelcoming old grandfather.