The Bank Of The River
In the dead of night...
...ominous knockings echo through the stillness, ghostly apparitions lurk in the shadows, and an unspeakable malevolence courses through the very walls of Steven's home. Murdered children from a dark past are haunting his every step.
A staunch skeptic of the supernatural, Steven's rationality begins to unravel in the face of the chilling phenomena he can no longer deny. His new home is reshaping his beliefs in ways he could never have imagined.
His strained relationship with his father, Roy, holds the key to figuring out the haunting enigma. Roy possesses "the gift" and can perceive what remains hidden from ordinary eyes. Steven, too, is gifted but refuses to embrace his latent abilities, initially dismissing them.
As the relentless apparitions intensify, they must confront the sinister riddle concealed within Steven’s home. A malevolence far more insidious than they could have fathomed lies buried, and they must reconcile their differences and trust each other if they are to stand against the evil that lurks within the rooms and hallways of Steven's dwelling.
Prepare for a heart-pounding journey into the supernatural with The Bank of the River, the pulse-pounding first installment of The River series. Step into a realm where the line between the living and the dead blurs, as you unravel a haunting mystery that will keep you teetering on the edge of your seat. If you crave ghost stories that send shivers down your spine, this is a series you can't afford to miss.
And that's not all. The Bank of the River is your gateway into an expansive supernatural universe, spanning 30+ enthralling books that interlace through three distinct series, offering hours upon hours of spine-tingling entertainment. A suggested reading order is included with each book, and you can always find more details and updates at the author's website.
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Residual
Steven and Roy believe they removed the ghosts haunting Steven’s home…
…but did they?
The supernatural forces at work in Steven’s home were powerful, engaged in a battle that had gone on for many years. Other entities – some benign, others more sinister – were drawn to that battle, and although the ghosts may have been driven out, it appears other creatures remain.
While Steven and his father enlist an exterminator to finish cleansing the house, they unwittingly entangle themselves with another sinister force far greater than either of them can overcome.
Their hope lies in the services of a recluse on Whidbey Island, a man who may or may not be everything he claims.
Residual is a River series novella that occurs between the events of The Bank of The River and A Haunting In Oregon.
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A Haunting In Oregon
Mason Manor, tucked away in the forests of Oregon – historic, beautiful, and full of ghosts.
The estate, built in 1850, is now a bed and breakfast run by Pete and Sarah. Once a wonderful place to stay, now it’s got a real problem – guests aren't surviving the night, and word has gotten out: "Stay away! The place is dangerous!"
Pete turns to an old friend, Roy, who has “the gift.” Sarah is skeptical of Roy's abilities, but Pete convinces Roy to help save their business.
With his son, Steven, they jump into the mystery and find things are much worse than they appear. They endure horrific encounters with the ghosts of the manor and discover a sinister force at work. Roy and Steven will need to use Roy’s gift and marshal the help of others to save Mason Manor from the terrors within.
A Haunting in Oregon is a fast-paced and suspenseful paranormal novel that confronts evil, ghosts, and the dead – and explores the supernatural gifts a father and son use to fight them.
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Ghosts Of Our Fathers
A dark figure that appears at night...
Steven is awakened in the middle of the night by invader that mysteriously shifts around the inside of his home. The figure seems frozen in time, benign, unable to move -- like a statue of a man, made of glass. It suddenly disappears and re-appears somewhere else, still frozen, watching him. When Steven summons the courage to inspect it closer, he discovers it's a shell of some kind, with a man inside... and the man is angry.
Steven would normally turn to his father, Roy, who is educating him on how to use “the gift” to deal with ghosts and other supernatural threats, but Roy isn't available. When the dark figure attacks him, Steven becomes desperate and turns to his friends Eliza and Daniel. Daniel’s an expert on time, recognizes the figure's movement as "time shifting." They all soon discover the true nature of the threat: it comes from the past and it’s worse than any of them could have guessed.
Unusual ghosts and horrific creatures stand between them and the solution. Time is running out as Steven, Roy, Daniel and Eliza dig into the past to learn of half-finished business that is coming back to haunt them all.
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Eximere
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest lies the haunted Unser Estate. A group of individuals with “the gift” assemble to find out what lurks inside the mansion, gathered by a local real estate agent who is certain the estate is the reason the nearby town is failing.
At first, Steven and Roy are hesitant to work with unfamiliar people, but with their good friend Eliza, all three become committed to helping the others determine why the Unser mansion is poisoning the community. They quickly learn that things are not as they seem.
A simple team effort to rid the estate of hauntings soon turns into a nightmare as the group is betrayed and suffers attacks by strange, mysterious forces. Leaving the house becomes impossible as they become trapped inside by the deadly Marchers who patrol the grounds. Dark secrets await in the hidden rooms of the mansion as they explore and try to determine exactly what James Unser was up to – a plan so evil, it threatens to destroy them all.
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The Suicide Forest
In these dark, secluded trees in Washington State, it's easy to get lost, and desperation hangs in the air. The Suicide Forest is full of demons, drawn to those who come to kill themselves. Steven and Roy find themselves here, facing down an evil greater than any before.
The mystery starts in the haunted Seattle home of June, grandmother to Robbie, a ten-year old boy who shares "the gift" with Steven and Roy. Steven suspects the ghostly attacks on June and Robbie are much more than a mere haunting and soon realize they are in over their heads.
They seek the help of Judith, an elderly eccentric. Her expertise seems wise, but when they set foot in The Suicide Forest they're confronted with a demonic force so powerful, even Judith's advice seems worthless. Steven will have to summon abilities he never knew he had to battle a creature intent on torturing his friends.
The Suicide Forest is a fast-paced and suspenseful paranormal novel that confronts evil, ghosts, and the dead.
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Devil’s Throat
Far away, in the remote deserts of southern Nevada, lies a cave with secrets: strangely twisted creatures, mass deaths, and a hole so deep, anything that goes in, never gets out.
Steven’s son Jason has been taken to this desolate place by someone bent on vengeance. Steven and his father Roy pursue them in a desperate attempt to save Jason’s life.
However, the River is different here, where fallout from nuclear testing has altered the ghosts and entities inhabiting the many abandoned mines and hidden caves surrounding Devil’s Throat. Steven and Roy are on unfamiliar ground; they seek the help of locals Winn and Deem to save Jason from a horrific ghost town, once submerged, now revealed.
Devil's Throat is a fast-paced and suspenseful paranormal novel.
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Blood Oath, Blood River
Downwind: the area of the United States that received the brunt of the fallout from nuclear testing. As a result, humans developed cancers and congenital malformations… and so did the creatures in the River, the place where people with “the gift” see things others cannot.
Twenty-year-old Deem is gifted, but she is on her own without her mentor, her late father. Deem’s family is tormented by a strange creature that climbs on their roof at night and infects the house with poison. With help from the charismatic Winn, Deem tries to stop the attacks, but this is only the beginning, with more ghosts, Callers, and mutated creatures to come.
Deem met Steven and Roy when she helped save their son from the ghosts at St. Thomas. She was impressed by Roy’s use of their ancestors’ journals to assist with their work. Deem is confident her father left behind a journal for her somewhere, but her dangerous search becomes riddled with menacing secrets and revelations, putting people’s lives at risk.
Deem and Winn are not alone; they are helped by Awan, a handsome Paiute who knows Native American tradition and can explain the strange forces targeting Deem. They also meet Carma, a friendly soul with a fantastic and valuable secret buried in her house.
Blood Oath, Blood River is the first book in The Downwinders series, a spinoff of The River series, in which Deem and Winn first appear in Book Six, Devil’s Throat. Blood Oath, Blood River is a stand-alone novel; no prior experience with The River series is necessary to enjoy it. Fans of The River series will be intrigued by this new exploration of the River, set in a place where downwind radiation has made the ghosts and creatures of the River strange and unpredictable.
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The Diablo Horror
Diablo is a small company town – twenty nondescript homes, each one looking exactly like the next. They're tucked against a cliff at the base of a huge dam. Although the houses look all the same, one is not – the one haunted by a bloody and horrific crime that replays again and again.
Steven tries to wrap up the deal he made with a demon before rescuing his son from St. Thomas. This leads Steven to the Diablo house with his father and son. Unprepared for the powerful entities inside the house, Steven soon learns he’s made a fatal mistake. Eliza joins them as they attempt to battle the most evil force they've ever encountered.
In one of the most chilling books of The River series, Steven, Roy, and Eliza learn that when it comes to making a deal with a demon, there’s one unfortunate truth:
Demons lie.
The Impossible Coin
Downwind: the area of the United States that received the brunt of the fallout from nuclear testing. As a result, humans developed cancers and congenital malformations… and so did the creatures in the River, the place where people with “the gift” see things others cannot.
Young Winn has recently discovered he has this ability, though he hardly knows how to use it. When his friend Brent suggests they search for treasure in the hills surrounding their Tucson suburb, Winn joins him and puts his newfound skills to use. They discover a cave filled with mutated ghosts possessing unusual powers. Here, Winn finds something so incredible, it begins a nightmare that will haunt him for the rest of his life.
Winn’s mother is distant and uninterested in mentoring his abilities, so Winn turns to Marty, a neighbor who steers him toward a solution. On the way, they meet Jeanette, a crazy but prophetic resident of their trailer court, and Ida, a firecracker who gave up part of herself to confront a similar nightmare.
If the ghosts in the cave were normal, Winn and Brent might stand a chance. But the ghosts are downwind, where radiation changed them into something far more frightening and dangerous...
The Impossible Coin is a fast-paced adventure with an unusual twist on the paranormal.
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The Haunting At Grays Harbor
Barbara's new home overlooks the beautiful, dark waters of Grays Harbor. She and her family live so close to the ocean, they can smell it from the front porch. On the outside, the home seems perfect. But inside, Barbara has called on her third priest, and he’s about to throw in the towel. The chilling apparitions in the house are terrorizing her daughters — and the local clergy! — and Barbara is desperate for help.
Steven has “the gift,” and along with his father, Roy, has offered to investigate — but a hired crew of ghostbusters from Seattle are in the way and making things worse. When Steven discovers a strange object in Barbara’s house, he and Roy realize the ghostbusting outfit are about to unwittingly set in motion a series of events that will heighten the family’s horrors.
Grays Harbor is only minutes from Eximere, and Steven and Roy discover things are not normal there either. Large pieces of the strange underground estate are disappearing, and Steven and Roy are desperate to find out why. They’ll have to dig deeper into the mystery of James Unser and the bizarre world he constructed if they’re to save Eximere from oblivion.
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The Graves Of Plague Canyon
Downwind: the area of the United States that received the brunt of the fallout from nuclear testing. As a result, humans developed cancers and congenital malformations… and so did the creatures in the River, the place where people with “the gift” see things others cannot.
Deem and Winn share this gift, and they are asked to help a young woman stricken with a mysterious ailment. The cure lies in the ancient cliff dwellings of Plague Canyon, hidden on the private property of a zealous and paranoid owner.
Warren, a rancher patrolling the canyon, shows an interest in Deem. She agrees to date him, hoping to manipulate him into letting her enter the ruins. Deem is surprised to find her interest in Warren becomes more than just a way into the canyon.
Winn is with her every step of the way as they explore treacherous mines and corpse-filled caves. Meanwhile, Carma and Lyman are planning a secret retaliation, and Deem is about to find herself in the middle of a deadly confrontation with Council forces.
The Graves of Plague Canyon is a fast-paced adventure with an unusual twist on the paranormal. It is the third book in The Downwinders series. Fans of The River series will find the unpredictable ghosts and mutations of the River even more frightening and terrifying in this place where surprises lurk around every corner, and deception is the order of the day.
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It Walks At Night
In the quiet town of Clearlake, something dark and evil roams the streets at night, searching for a victim to haul into the forest and kill. When it targets Eliza’s son, forces are quickly aligned to fight it. Eliza asks for help from Steven and Roy, her friends in Seattle who have “the gift,” an ability to see things others cannot by entering a place called “The River.”
Their battle will take them to dark mausoleums and haunted groves. The answer may lie in the hands of a reclusive woman, a specialist in death… or it may revolve around a stalker, a man intent on creating an abomination.
Eliza, Steven, and Roy have worked together before, but the creatures that walk the streets of Clearlake will challenge them, bringing them to the edge of disaster.
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The Dark River: A
For those with “the gift,” the River is where they go to see things that others cannot; a realm co-existing with our own, filled with ghosts. There’s a place in the River that most gifteds will not explore: The Dark River. Its reputation as a place of evil and addiction are well known, and only the foolish, desperate, or depraved would dare to enter.
Derick was once a cop who, like every other cop, ignored the strange and inexplicable things that would pop up every now and then in his police work. After he retired, he decided to explore these unresolved things, and he discovered a clandestine world of people who are able to communicate with the dead. Though not gifted himself, he found a way to not only enter the Dark River, but also to make some money, taking contracts to pull people out and back to the real world.
This time, the contract he takes turns out to be more than he bargained for, and it takes him deeper into the Dark River than he ever wanted to go. He faces strange, sadistic creatures, an infection that requires routine treatments to keep at bay, and the constant threat of firestorms as he escorts a woman with a secret through the foreboding landscape to her destination in a rebel town.
A is a fast-paced paranormal mystery, filled with strange twists and turns in a sinister setting. It’s the first book in The Dark River series, set in the same universe as its companion series, The Downwinders and The River.
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The Blackham Mansion Haunting
Blackham Mansion was built next to a graveyard for a reason. Spiritualists who gathered there to make contact with ghosts knew the deceased were only a few feet away. Over the years, they became very successful at rousing the dead and inquiring about the afterlife.
Too successful.
Deem, a gifted twenty-year-old, learns that the long-abandoned mansion holds secrets she must investigate. She becomes wrapped up with the unusual house located downwind, where years ago the brunt of Nevada’s nuclear testing fallout rained down from the skies. As a result, Blackham Mansion isn’t any ordinary haunted house. The entities inside — some helpful, some monstrously hideous — are things she’s never dealt with before. Her friends Winn, Carma, and David try to help, but the forces inside the house overtake them all.
Winn and Deem come face to face with a terrifying reality: Be careful what solutions you hope for; sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
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The Cycle Of The Shen
Does paradise only exist in our minds?
Eximere always seemed like paradise to Steven and Roy. Having agreed to act as caretakers for the mansion, they have been spending more time at Eximere, becoming acquainted with its quirks and idiosyncrasies.
However, the more Steven and Roy learn about Eximere, the more disillusioned they become.
Their recent discoveries of Eximere’s nature have extended their circle of caretaking, and now a century-old creature from a tiny town on the peninsula threatens to unravel the delicate balance that keeps Eximere functional. As they struggle to stop this strange entity from destroying everything they love about Eximere, more of James Unser’s bizarre design is revealed — and the results are devastating to Steven and Roy.
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The Blood Gardener
In the real world, Derick is just a retired cop; but in the Dark River, he’s public enemy number one, living in a land of ghosts.
Most people with the gift won’t enter the Dark River. It’s a disturbing place of evil, where it’s easy to lose oneself in its depraved pleasures – or die in the jaws of a horrifying creature.
Though Derick isn’t gifted, he’s found a way to enter the Dark River, but only to pay the bills: people pay him to go there and extract loved ones from its clutches.
After an extraction goes wrong, Derick becomes a wanted man. Wanted for helping rebels. Wanted for murdering Yann, the great torturer. Wanted for destroying an entire town by fire. Derick also finds himself the de facto father of A, a monochild with secrets of his own.
His journey takes him to the gory graveyard of The Blood Gardener, where he forms an uneasy alliance. Will this help him destroy the forces determined to hunt him down?
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A Christmas Haunting At Point No Point
Steven’s brother and his family have come to visit for the holidays. Looking for a relaxing and quiet location to enjoy the scenic beauty of Puget Sound, Steven chooses Point No Point, the oldest lighthouse in the region. Here, the lighthouse keeper’s quarters have been remodeled into a vacation rental, and it seems to be the perfect location.
Perfect, if your idea of quiet is loud thumpings coming from the abandoned museum next door. Perfect, if your idea of relaxing is a slow, creeping infection emanating from the shipwrecks just off the shore.
In this stand-alone novel, Steven and his father Roy find their picturesque Christmas holiday turning into a family nightmare as they unravel the haunted secrets from the deadly shores of Point No Point.
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The Massacre Mechanism
In the delicate moments just before sleep arrives, Winn is plagued with symbols racing through his mind. He has no idea what they mean, but he suspects they’re a message, sent to him from someone trapped in a place where messages aren’t supposed to escape.
With the help of Carma and David, Winn begins a quest to decipher the symbols. Along the way, he faces mutated ghosts and unsavory opportunists. Thankfully, his friend Awan has connections that can help, and soon they discover dangerous, evil forces moving all around them, gathering for a confrontation.
When they uncover the nature of the impending conflict, they’re frightened — terrified of what might happen, terrified of the role they’re expected to play, and terrified for Deem.
The Massacre Mechanism continues the story of The Downwinders, those with “the gift” who operate in the southern United States where fallout from nuclear testing in the sixties horribly shifted the ghosts and other unseen entities that make up “The River” — the place where the gifted can go to see the things that the rest of us cannot. It is a fast-paced paranormal adventure.
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The Port Of Missing Souls
He would slit their throats, then rob them and dump their bodies into the river...
Steven and Roy return as the haunted mysteries of Eximere deepen!
When the ghosts of grotesque, bloated bodies invade Eximere, Steven and Roy investigate only to find that other people are exploring the Unser Mansion above them, just like they did years ago. Somehow their arrival has released the spirits of dozens of drowning victims, who now wander the halls.
Secret rooms with no windows or doors hide new mysteries inside the mansion. It will take knowledge of the Dark River to figure things out. Although the Dark River is accessible from Eximere, Roy forbids it, and Steven has promised never to go there.
When Derick arrives to conduct his own investigation, it becomes clear that the Dark River is where the answers to James Unser’s mysteries lie. Will Steven travel there, breaking his promise to his father?
Many of the River universe storylines come together to weave a complex tale of one man’s evil quest for power.
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The Nightmares Of Quiet Grove
Some events are so horrific, they stain the very ground around them…
Something evil is buried at the estate of Quiet Grove, so deeply hidden that Deem and Winn are unable to reach it with their “gift.” David’s aunt lives in fear on the estate, plagued by sleepless nights with an unbearable gnawing sensation inside her head. When Deem and her friends try to locate the source of the estate’s hauntings, they uncover a shocking secret that leads them into uncharted waters. They soon find themselves out of their depth, unsure how to combat the nightmares that become real.
Quiet Grove lies east of the Nevada nuclear test site in the heart of the fallout zone. Ghosts from its sinister history have mutated into horrifying creatures, terrorizing Deem, Winn, David, and Erin in this new paranormal mystery.
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Capricorn
Chaos. Betrayal. Unimaginable horror.
The Dark River: a place most people with “the gift” will not explore. Its reputation for evil and addiction is well known and well deserved.
Things have changed in The Dark River since Derick, a retired cop, found a way to take down the powerful LeFever. Chaos rules. Factions are vying for power. With a leadership vacuum at the top, Derick is pressured to take LeFever’s place, but he doesn't want to be in charge.
Staying too long in the Dark River allows worms to hatch in one's blood, making a return to the real world impossible. When a cure to purge the worms is in jeopardy, Derick reluctantly takes the leadership reins to ensure the cure is instituted successfully.
He soon learns troubling details: researchers are trying to make the cure work — but they’re also investigating the strange circumstances of LeFever’s death. Derick is stunned to learn that LeFever might have used an ancient ritual to cheat death by changing himself in a bizarre and unimaginable way.
The intrigue of the Dark River deepens as new alliances are forged and betrayals emerge. In the end, he can only rely on A, the monochild. But A has disappeared…
The Haunting Of Johansen House
A terrifying force haunts Johansen House…
The Victorian mansion sitting at the end of the street is full of horrors. It waits, its secrets hidden, its influence deadly. The events that happened within its walls are a mystery so deep, the truth may never be fully known. Uncovering its chilling history will take determination and skill.
Steven bought the house when it went up for sale, surprising his father Roy. As they use their gift to explore its rooms, they discover it’s full of unusual, terrifying spirits — some unresponsive, others violent.
Their search through Lukas Johansen’s past takes them to far-flung destinations, digging for explanations about his bizarre, depraved behaviors. Through it all, Roy wonders why Steven is so intent upon revealing the answers. Steven, for his part, isn’t entirely sure why he feels compelled to resolve the mysteries of the mansion — he simply knows that Johansen was a fundamental part of his past, and that he must pursue the truth.
When the truth is finally revealed to Steven, it is much worse than what he imagined…
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Evocation
Eliza thought she was doing a favor for a friend. Instead, it turned out to be a twenty-year nightmare.
Forced to aid a madwoman intent upon bringing a new evil into the world, Eliza seeks help from Steven, Roy, and Terrell – but they’re completely unprepared for the horror facing them. Attacked by those they are trying to help, they soon become trapped in the dark, mysterious passageways of a labyrinth, where a monstrous evil is gestating, waiting to be birthed.
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Descent Into Hell Street
Deadly ghosts...an old, forgotten mine...
Terrors from the past.
When David suggests Winn and Deem accompany him to explore a soon-to-be-sealed mine, Winn is apprehensive; not a fan of caves, tight spaces, and the radiated ghosts that haunt them downwind, Winn is more interested in having a good time with the women he sneaks into Carma’s place than prowling around in the dark.
David convinces them to go, discovering a place hidden from time: Canyon Diablo, and its notorious “Hell Street”. The town has a history of violence and tragedy, and soon the three are wrapped up in the violence…and their own tragic events.
It’s time for old hauntings to surface and be cleared away, but at a heartbreaking price.
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The Remains
Why is the town mortuary secretly removing bodies in the middle of the night?
Deem, a young woman living downwind in southern Utah, is using her gift to figure that out. Spying on the old funeral home with the help of her boyfriend Warren, she confirms that corpses are being stolen – but for what purpose?
With Winn and David away in Europe, and Warren too skeptical to be much help, Deem is grateful when her cousin Alice comes to the rescue. Together they stake out the mortuary and begin an adventure that takes them all over the southwest, coming face to face with a giant conspiracy that threatens to overtake them all.
Just as she is on the cusp of solving the mystery and dispensing some justice, Deem is betrayed by everything she has come to rely on – with devastating consequences.
Things may never be the same…
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Node
Lily used a pair of vice grips to pry her fingernail up, showing him the bleeding gore underneath. “That’s so much better,” she said. “Now I can breathe. It’s easier once you let it out.”
When Steven and Roy agree to help a woman who accidentally animates a collection of antique dolls, they find themselves in a much deeper haunting than either expected. At a house near Deadwood, South Dakota, they uncover a room full of dead people.
Each has a strange metal tube sticking out of one ear.
Deem joins Steven and Roy along with Terrell and a cast of new characters, all trying to unravel the mystery of the corpses and the tubes, exposing a deadly conspiracy within the town. In the process, they confront uncomfortable questions about death:
How long does it really take to die?
At what point are we really gone?
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Inheritance
“He’s trying to scare us back to Leeds!”
Not yet ready to reconcile with Carma and Lyman, Deem decides to spend Christmas with David and Winn. Away from Lyman’s compound, they camp out in the empty house left by David’s parents in Ivins.
Hoping to enjoy a quiet Christmas with each other, they deck the home with old decorations discovered in the attic, and Deem sets about baking massive amounts of cookies – a tradition she used to perform with her mother. It seems like the three of them will be able to have a merry Christmas on their own, away from Lyman and Carma.
However, something in the house has other ideas. Confronted with their own ghosts, Deem, Winn, and David must discover the deeply buried secrets that haunt the homestead. Is it something that Lyman has cooked up, trying to force them to return to Leeds? Or is it a new threat that will require Lyman’s help to solve?
Spend a Christmas with Deem, Winn, and David…and find out!
Inheritance is a novella of 28k words.
The Dead Kingdom
“He didn’t die how they said…”
While at his young relative’s funeral, Awan finds these words on a slip of paper in his pocket. He learns many people in the small town of Tropic don’t believe the child died of natural causes as local authorities claim. Awan discovers whatever caused the death of the child is still active, moving through the town at night, enticing children to commit brutal acts of violence. Even worse, the local religious leaders and police seem in on it, facilitating the attacks.
Devising a method to track the entity, Awan discovers an abandoned graveyard. There, a corpse leads him on a wild chase through the desert Southwest where fallout from nuclear testing has made ghosts frighteningly feral, and strange mutations have spawned bizarre creatures.
Awan ultimately uncovers a vast army of the dead he cannot tackle alone. With the help of Winn, Lyman, and Carma, he wages a battle against a religious zealot who requires blood atonement to keep his followers in line.
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Spirit Lake
The distant screams raced over the surface of the water.
They weren’t just screams of pain. Something inhuman was happening on the small boat crossing the lake.
It was supposed to be a quiet fishing vacation, but Steven and his father Roy find themselves wrapped up in a deadly mystery that lurked at Spirit Lake long before Mount St. Helens erupted forty years ago. Back then, the eruption ended a string of strange disappearances. Now, more people have gone missing, and the monstrous secret behind the vanishings slowly reveals itself the deeper Steven and Roy dig into the past. Exposing the dormant evil will be only half the battle; they will have to defeat it using methods given by a dead man. It’s a race against time as they use every skill they possess to end the horrors of Spirit Lake.
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Divertimento
Imagine something so horrible, so shocking, that simply looking at it can kill you...
You’re tied down…helpless…forced to see an unspeakable creature. The terrifying visual stimuli short-circuits your brain, causing organ failure and massive hemorrhages.
A serial killer is using such a device, brutally murdering people all over the United States. Derick Hall has been tasked with finding and stopping the perpetrator, but the more he learns about the killer’s victims, the more he wonders if he’s doing the right thing. In the Dark River, what seems noble is often not, and the forces that compel Derick to eliminate the killer become as questionable as the killer himself.
In this disturbing and fast-paced novel, as Derick finds himself wrapped up in an ugly hunt for a madman, he helps Deem seek answers to her questions – with disastrous consequences.
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House On Fire
Awan’s mother raised her hand and snapped her fingers. “The Lady in White…she will kill you like that!”
Awan heard his mother give warnings before, but never like this.
When Winn and Awan offer to help an FBI agent in Southeastern Utah, they don’t understand what they’re getting themselves into—unusual arsons, with houses burning so fiercely, firemen are forced to retreat. Strange mounds covering victims in the rubble. A student film that somehow played a role in resurrecting an ancient force that is terrorizing innocent victims.
David returns from California to help, but the task at hand grows more difficult and more daunting with each facet they discover. Everyone is baffled, but Awan’s mother knows what they need to do—and how dangerous it will be.
Awan, Winn, David, and Carma return for another adventure set in the radiated southwest, where the ghosts are more violent and the creatures of the River more unpredictable.
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The Cultus Contracts
“A giant saw blade rose out of their beds, slicing down their spines, killing them in their sleep.”
Things are going wrong – very wrong – in the small town of Astoria. Ghostly apparitions haunt the streets, tragic accidents are all over the news, and horrific deaths stump the police – all since Terrell made a terrible mistake and unwittingly unleashed a terror that had long been forgotten.
He pleads for Steven and Roy’s help. As they dig deeper into what has happened, they uncover hidden histories going back hundreds of years. They encounter ancient ghosts, shipwrecks, and Astoria’s terrifying destruction by fire before they finally discover the cause of the trouble – and find themselves neck-deep in solving it before the entire town is devastated again.
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Malfunction 61
Ex-cop Derick used to control the Dark River – a strange, Lovecraftian world only those with the gift can enter – but he abandoned it for the sunny beaches of Belize months ago. His time in the sun is cut short when a new mystery draws him back to face a mind-bending threat.
Leaving Deem in control of the Dark River has not gone well. After a long delay, treatments for the worms have finally rolled out – but the treatments are killing people, not curing them. When her boyfriend James goes missing, Deem secludes herself in Eximere, and no one has been able to reach her.
As Derick investigates what has gone wrong, he discovers new dangers forming in the wastelands of the Dark River, capable of massive destruction. Strange clues and bizarre pieces of evidence lead him to a confrontation greater than any the Dark River has seen before – one which he and A may not survive.
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Here is a list of the Suggested Reading Order:
1. The Bank of the River (The River series, Book 1)
2. Residual (The River series, Book 1a. It’s a free novella, available here.)
3. A Haunting in Oregon (The River series, Book 2)
4. Ghosts of Our Fathers (The River series, Book 3)
5. Eximere (The River series, Book 4)
6. The Suicide Forest (The River series, Book 5)
7. Devil’s Throat (The River series, Book 6)
8. Blood Oath, Blood River (The Downwinders series, Book 1)
9. The Diablo Horror (The River series, Book 7)
10. The Impossible Coin (The Downwinders series, Book 2)
11. The Haunting at Grays Harbor (The River series, Book 8)
12. The Graves of Plague Canyon (The Downwinders series, Book 3)
13. It Walks At Night (The River series, Book 9)
14. A (The Dark River series, Book 1)
15. The Blackham Mansion Haunting (The Downwinders series, Book 4)
16. The Cycle of the Shen (The River series, Book 10)
17. The Blood Gardener (The Dark River series, Book 2)
18. A Christmas Haunting at Point No Point (The River series, Book 11)
19. The Massacre Mechanism (The Downwinders series, Book 5)
20. The Port of Missing Souls (The River series, Book 12)
21. The Nightmares of Quiet Grove (The Downwinders series, Book 6)
22. Capricorn (The Dark River series, Book 3)
23. The Haunting of Johansen House (The River series, Book 13)
24. Evocation (The River series, Book 14)
25. Descent Into Hell Street (The Downwinders series, Book 7)
26. The Remains (The Downwinders series, Book 8)
27. Node (The River series, Book 15)
28. Inheritance (The Downwinders series, Book 9)
29. The Dead Kingdom (The Downwinders series, Book 10)
30. Spirit Lake (The River series, Book 16)
31. Divertimento (The Dark River series, Book 4)
32. House On Fire (The Downwinders series, Book 11)
33. The Cultus Contracts (The River series, Book 17)
34. Malfunction 61 (The Dark River series, Book 5)
The next three titles are not a series per se. They tell the backstory of one of the River characters, Eliza. Best read in order.
— The Haunting of Pitmon House is a stand-alone title. No prior reading necessary.
— The Haunting of Waverly Hall is a sequel to The Haunting of Pitmon House.
— A Haunting In Wisconsin is a sequel to The Haunting of Waverly Hall.
— The Haunting of Briarwood Manor is a sequel to A Haunting In Wisconsin.
The Mausoleum Series contains three titles and should be read in order:
I Reside Here started as a stand-alone but has become a series:
“Stand-alone” titles:
Some of these books may contain references to other characters or elements of the universe, but no knowledge of any other title or character is necessary in order to enjoy them.
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