Books like The off season by Jack Cady

Point Vestal, perched on the Pacific coast, has been dooming its inhabitants to a strange curse since the first white settlers arrived. Ghosts roam the streets, and the town’s timeline is fractured—Victorians walk beside modern tourists, some citizens live in 1893, while others are fixed in 1973 or 1995. Even a single building can open into another era through its door. The arrival of a wandering preacher named Joel‑Andrew, who carries a deep knowledge of sin, and Obed, a dark gray cat who can dance on his hind legs, sparks a transformation in this fractured community. Their presence threatens to alter not just the lives of the townspeople but the very flow of time itself. The story examines how grief, faith, and the unexpected intertwine in a place where history repeats and rewinds, and whether change can be forced in a town that shuns its past.

First publish date: 1995