Blood Oath, Blood River, the first book in The Downwinders series, is available FREE at Amazon now through November 2.
Pick up a copy and jump into this twisted version of the River, where the radioactive fallout of the desert southwest have made the ghosts more frightening and unpredictable!
The second book in The Dark River series, The Blood Gardener, is available now at Amazon.
Here’s the book description:
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.
Derick’s 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?
The Blood Gardener is a fast-paced paranormal mystery, filled with strange twists and turns in a macabre setting. It’s the second book in The Dark River series, set in the same universe as its companion series, The Downwinders and The River.
The Dark River: A on sale for just 99 cents!Pick up the first book in The Dark River series for just 99 cents from October 28 to November 4 and jump into this creepy new series!
Book Two in The Dark River series, The Blood Gardener, will be released in the next couple of weeks, before the Halloween holiday!
In this title, Derick goes even deeper into the Dark River. Fans of The River series will find this title particularly intriguing!
The book will be available on Kindle and as a paperback soon; it will not be available for pre-sale.
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Happy Friday!
I’m busily at work on the next novel in The Dark River series. The title is selected, and the cover art is underway. I hope to make an announcement about it next week and share the cover art with you, so stay tuned!
I’d also like to thank Kimberly Y, Sherry Baker, and NanKat47 for their kind reviews of The Cycle of the Shen at Amazon! Your reviews matter a great deal to me, and I appreciate you taking the time to share you thoughts about the novel.
Tina Bailey wrote to me about a line in The Cycle of the Shen where Terrell references a recent explosion at a motel in Bremerton, Washington. She wanted to know how it made it into the novel.
This was based on an actual event: Gas Explosion Reported at Bremerton Motel.
I traveled to Bremerton just after the accident occurred, and here’s a photo I took. You’re looking at the end of the motel that lost several rooms:
There is a scene in the book where Terrell is instructed to empty the second floor tenants of the Victor Smith Building by claiming there was a gas leak. This scene was already in the story when the Motel 6 accident occurred. The coincidence of the explosion just after writing about one was a little creepy to me, so I inserted the reference to the Bremerton explosion during the final edit.
I like to set my novels around real historical events and places. Some other things from The Cycle of the Shen that are true: