Release date: February 23, 2027

The stories in Kathleen McNamara’s Gold in the Furnace explore what it is like to live at the edge of reality, in flood, fire, and snow, in the modern American West. A decorated combat veteran searches for Bigfoot as he tries to forget his ex-wife. A young girl’s coming of age story coincides with her father’s anti-government sentiment, while a bizarre species invades the fragile riparian ecosystem. An aging heiress and cult survivor struggles to process how the mythos of her family shaped the American Century. From rugged stretches of Colorado and Utah, to the urban strip-malls of Los Angeles and Phoenix, McNamara’s characters navigate a dreamscape, slipping into the supernatural as they confront addiction, delusion, and monstrosity.