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Also by J. Todd Scott:

Scar the Sky, September 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Call the Dark, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Lost River, July 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Lost River, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
This Side of Night, May 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
This Side of Night, July 2019
Hardcover
High White Sun, June 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Far Empty, March 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
High White Sun, March 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Far Empty, February 2018
Trade Size
The Far Empty, June 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

SCAR THE SKY
By: J. Todd Scott

Crooked Lane Books
September 2025
On Sale: September 9, 2025
Featuring: Andi Ellis
336 pages
ISBN: B0DPYZRZ53
EAN: 9798892423168
Kindle: B0DPYHYR8R
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Thriller Crime | Novella / Short Story | Science Fiction

Lightning never strikes twice —until it does.

A killer is hunting down survivors of lightning strikes in this dark and twisting thriller, perfect for fans of J. H. Markert and Richard Chizmar.

Everything changed for Andi Ellis when she was struck by lightning and her heart stopped. Andi was resuscitated, but she was never the same—electronics strangely malfunction in her presence: clocks can’t keep time; batteries swiftly die. And while many lightning strike victims are left with temporary "lightning tree" markings, on her they are permanent scars.

Years later Andi, her eight-year-old daughter, and a fellow lightning strike survivor have fled Texas and Andi’s dangerous ex to go off the grid in a strange and secluded desert community.

Meanwhile, two private investigators pursue a US senator's missing daughter who they find too late. When searching for information on the strange lightning scars on the girl's body, they find themselves pulled into an FBI investigation—people who have been struck by lightning are being murdered.

As the death toll mounts, the task force traces the killer farther west—closer and closer to Andi Ellis and her daughter, and the haven she's carefully created.

Thriller and horror readers will be enthralled by the dark turns in Scar the Sky.

Audiobook Narrator-  Raechel Wong.