Walk in the Fire

Steph Post graduated from Davidson College as a recipient of the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship for creative writing and a winner of the Vereen Bell writing award for fiction. She holds a Master’s degree in Graduate Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has most recently appeared in Garden & Gun, Nonbinary Review, Saw Palm, Black Lily and the anthology Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Rhysling Award and was a semi-finalist for The Big Moose Prize. She lives in Florida with her husband, three dogs and way too many chickens.

“Walk in the Fire is the best book by an author rightly compared to Harry Crews and Larry Brown, but who blazes a path all her own. You do not know the dank heart of the great state of Florida unless you’ve read Steph Post.”– Kent Wascom, author of The Blood of Heaven“Walk in the Fire slings the Cannon family back on the page like a Molotov cocktail through a window. Few writers could coax a cast of characters this vast onto a single stage and orchestrate their story with such mastery. Post owns the genre of North Florida noir.”– David Joy, author of Where the Light Tends to Go and The Weight Of This World“Post combines classical genre tropes with a touch of Harry Crews-style Southern gothic in this terrific crime novel.”– Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)“Sizzling… Post has a real knack for creating a complex plot that maintains its drive through sweat-slicked settings that range from raucous Daytona Beach strip clubs to the kind of lonesome roads where nothing good happens.”– Tampa Bay Times“Steph Post’s Walk in the Fire is a wonderful accomplishment, teeming with a refreshingly unexpected cast of characters, and an original story in an unlikely setting. It’s a wild ride through the dark side of the sunshine state.”– David Swinson, author of The Second Girl and Crime Song“Fascinating… a solid actioner with some tasty trimmings.”– Booklist “With wicked dexterity Steph Post gets at the deepness in living and loving, as well as the good and bad within us all. But Walk in the Fire also takes us to dark places where evil reigns and the characters struggle with their worst and best intentions. Unputdownable crime fiction with a Southern Twist, Walk in the Fire will continually surprise you with the speed of its plot and the mythic proportions of the story it unfolds.”– Natalie S. Harnett, author of The Hollow Ground“We tend to think of Florida as happy, warm, and sunny, but in Steph Post’s wonderfully written new novel, A Walk in the Fire, she shows us a slew of cold-blooded folks and dark places… Excellent.”– Erik Storey, author of Nothing Short of Dying“Steph Post writes with an intensity all her own. Greed, power, and desperation collide to make us ask, what choices do we make when it seems like none are left? Walk in the Fire captures backwoods Florida in all its grit and glory. This is a superbly original thriller – as sleek, wild, and dangerous as any rattlesnake.”– Erica Wright, author of The Red Chameleon“Steph Post is a great new discovery. Her stories carry a dark pulse that keeps the perfect beat in a world where people put everything they’ve got on the line. Walk In The Fire is going to put Steph Post on the map.”– Michael Connelly