A column of soldiers crossing a frozen, ruined battlefield under a clouded moon
1914 · The Front

The War Begins

It opens with the crossing. Boots on frozen ground, the first cold hush before the world came apart.

No Man's Land

Through Frozen Silence

Between the ruins, the snow keeps its own counsel. Every man carries a silence he will not put down.

The Long March

Toward the Unknown

The road home runs through the same country that broke them. They walk it anyway, one salt-white mile at a time.

A Novel by Scott G. Perry

The Scent of
Cedar & Salt

Cedar and ash, salt and snow. The memory a body cannot set down.

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The story continues

The march did not end at the armistice.

It followed them home, into quiet rooms and ordinary mornings, into the scent of cedar and salt that would not leave the coat.

Portrait of author Scott G. Perry
Hertford
North Carolina
The Author

Scott G. Perry

A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, Scott Perry writes at the seam between memory and reckoning. His Lucid books mapped the country beyond waking; with The Scent of Cedar & Salt he turns to historical fiction and the long walk home from war, where the ordinary world never quite fits the same way again.

I promise to challenge your perspective, respect your intelligence, and guide you through the extraordinary, leaving the conclusions in your hands.

Scott G. PerryHertford · USA
Selected Works

The Lucid Trilogy

Three volumes charting dreams, consciousness, and the experiences most people carry and rarely speak aloud.

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Volume I

Lucid Collections

Where the first door opened. A gathering of dreams before waking.

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Volume II

Lucid Realms

A psychological journey into lucid dreaming as both refuge and reckoning.

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Volume III

Lucid Encounters

A psychological discovery. What waits when the mind finally meets itself.

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Inside the Novel

Five chapters, one long winter.

A path through the story, from the first crossing to the scent that would not leave.

Advance Praise

Early words for the winter to come.

★★★★★

A hush of a book. Perry writes cold and grief with the same unhurried hand.

Advance reader
★★★★★

The march stays with you long after the last page. Quietly devastating.

Early manuscript reader
★★★★★

Historical fiction that trusts its silences. I finished it and sat still.

Historical fiction reader
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