David Baugher is author of three books, including "Secret St. Louis," a 2016 work that garnered extensive local media coverage from the Post-Dispatch to KMOX radio.

When suburbia meets the supernatural, a seemingly ordinary Midwestern household unexpectedly finds itself thrust into a strange and violent underworld of magic and prophecy that forces its members to confront their differences, find strength in each other's weaknesses and grapple with the murky secrets of their shadowy, blood-drinking wife and mother as she fights desperately to keep her human loved ones alive. Set in St. Louis, Missouri, during the pandemic summer of 2020, "Solstice Sunrise" is a richly detailed paranormal thriller that keeps readers guessing. Can a duplicitous, psychopathic vampire anti-heroine protect her family from killers, prevent her marriage from collapse and save the planet from catastrophe or will the skeletons in her closet doom everyone? Humor and horror collide in this quick-witted and darkly quirky tale of falsehoods, fangs and family.