For your consideration: A horror novel set in the Piney Woods of East Texas near the town of Palestine where a train has mysteriously stalled. It's 1885. The snow has finally stopped and the train's twelve passengers have just begun to realize they're in deep trouble. There's something out there and it's calling up at them to be let in. The Buffalo Soldier on board might not be enough to save them, and the legendarily brutal mass murderer he guards is no one's hero. But it's not a single hero that's required. It's all of them. A Resurrection of Starlings.