Ravens Roost

A sweeping story of gay loss and love—set in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Bookended by encounters at the Ravens Roost Lookout on the Blue Ridge Parkway, suave and wealthy Virginia landowner Dabney Belcastle manipulates men to do his will until tragedy strikes and he turns to using his manipulation in atonement.
Having disrupted the lives of the young Italian-American landscape artist Lucio; the mixed-race workman Hank, who holds a dark secret of the Belcastle family past; and the two young University of Virginia English professors Paul and Stuart, Dabney does what he can to give these men their lives and freedom back in a bittersweet romance set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah Valley, and hunt club Piedmont of Central Virginia.