Fourteen-year-old Cyrus Thatcher already knows he's a freak and his father hates him. But when his beloved baby sister disappears and the townspeople won't help, Cyrus must choose to take matters into his own self-doubting hands. Set in rural Missouri of 1924, The Plague Child's Doctor is a fanciful plunge into fantasy, horror, and Americana in which nothing is as it seems.About the Author: Joshua Heston is editor-in-chief of StateoftheOzarks.net, an online magazine he founded in 2007. An adopted-Ozarkian, Heston grew up in Central Illinois where he spent too much time daydreaming in the forest and reading his parents' vast collection of National Geographics. These days he may be found roaming the Ozark Mountains looking for stories. When he is not working the story beat, you may find him at Vintage Paris, the small coffee shop in Hollister, Missouri's historic district. He'll either be drinking espresso macchiatos or falling asleep on the couch, though not necessarily in that order!