Book Series The Dark River

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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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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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…

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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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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