The Antichrist Is Due in March

In front of three thousand people and a satellite audience of four million, a televangelist curses a pregnant scientist: "May the Beast himself be born of your womb."

By morning, the whole country is counting to March.

Hannah Whitfield is a geneticist. She doesn't believe in curses. But on her wedding night she found a dead cat on her bridal bed. There was blood inside her wedding ring. And in her small Ohio valley, babies are being born wrong and dying within hours, one of them smiling at the midwife in the middle of the Lord's Prayer.

Now her father is dead, her town has turned against her, and four hundred strangers believe the child she is carrying is the eighth sign, the one the others were born to announce.

With her devout husband Caleb, a disgraced Las Vegas magician, a small-town doctor hiding from his own past, and an old midwife who will not be moved, Hannah sets out to prove what is really killing the children of Canaan. What she finds is a conspiracy built on grief, faith, and money, and a few things no one has ever been able to explain.

In the tradition of Rosemary's Baby and The Omen, The Antichrist Is Due in March is a supernatural suspense novel about the terrible power of belief, and about what it takes to stand in a doorway and refuse to step aside.

Seven children died. The eighth is his.