During his son's baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man's leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn't have, went somewhere he never should have gone and paid harsh consequences. His eighteen year old son knows something is up with his dad and confides in his quiet girlfriend, who suffered early trauma of her own and begins to suspect that her boyfriend's father knows exactly what she went ...

Over a hundred years ago a series of murders were committed by a family called the Benders. The people posing as father, mother, son and daughter took in weary travelers and offered a warm bed but murdered them at dinner and robbed them of their goods before burying the bodies. The Benders were never punished for their crimes, and in modern day Kansas when an ex-police detective turned missing persons investigator is sent to determine the identity of a certain inn keeper outside sleepy Cof...

In this fourth novel of the series featuring Eris Renard, our hero returns home from the road to find his half-brother, new dad of twins, Clint, stressed and overworked, taken advantage of by irresponsible employees at the bar and burdened at home with twice the chores. Kansas friends Ben and Minda have moved in next door and welcomed Henny Bedayah and Ben’s former physician father Reid Cloane for a test visit to see how they like the area. During Henny’s first venture into new surrounding...

A routine real estate showing in the history-rich college town of Lawrence, Kansas takes a dark turn and brings Eve Mellor and Shawnee pilot Nate Catton together to face events littered with symbols too confusing to understand--and a few decapitated bodies. Neither wants to believe the bloodshed is attached to him or her, but the evidence proving one of them right is confounded by a meddling detective, a missing head, and a stalker who can't take no for an answer. Add to the mix a theory a...

Twenty-two year old Anna Wincott has an older brother with autism, part of the one in forty-five people in America diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. Though he shares similar traits with other autistics, Lewis is in no way usual, and for most of Anna’s life, everything has been about her brother. She works every job she can find just to pay the bills. Then she’s hired for a well-paying position by Bellway Aircraft inspection foreman Sam Post. Sam is a genuinely good man about...

A routine real estate showing in the history-rich college town of Lawrence, Kansas takes a dark turn and brings Eve Mellor and Shawnee pilot Nate Catton together to face events littered with symbols too confusing to understand--and a few decapitated bodies. Neither wants to believe the bloodshed is attached to him or her, but the evidence proving one of them right is confounded by a meddling detective, a missing head, and a stalker who can't take no for an answer. Add to the mix a theory a...

After gruff Winter Slocum, finder of missing persons, gets a new case he calls on the assistance of former conservation officer Eris Renard and the family of friends the two of them developed while rescuing the beautiful Haugen sisters in ERIS RENARD. Ronja and Bara are back, along with Clint Long Elk and Harold Heap of Birds to help Winter solve the disappearance of a Denver woman’s secretive husband and two children.Winter finds himself captivated by his new client and goes to unu...

A decade after the murderous events at Green Lake, former conservation officer Eris Renard finds his life’s direction has changed, not of his own choosing but due to the obsessions and brutal tactics of others. He meets a gravel-voiced finder of missing persons named Winter Slocum and through him a family of Scandinavian women with a traumatized deputy attached to their case. The reclusive Eris soon finds himself caught up in a far ranging rescue that reunites him with a half brother and a...

And there's still the matter of the abandoned park, back in the hands of a Gooch, a chilling woman who shows no remorse for the crimes of her family and may even have been an offsite participant. A frightening force with ancient roots may be the source of the family's evil, providing a harrowing conundrum: Once you destroy a monster in this life, how do you keep it from coming back in the next?

Fixing the Dog and Sex Saturday start off a collection of humorous, frightening and offbeat tales from the mind that brought you Green Lake, Eris Renard, Nightmare, Borderland, The Neighborhood, The Moons of Summer, and many other titles.

The white-haired Ronja Haugen rescued by Eris Renard and Winter Slocum has lost some of her edge, thanks to a decision to carry a child for someone who can’t. At five months pregnant, Ronja accompanies her sister Bara and their company of friends in a quest to find a boy gone missing from a campground near the Rocky Mountain National Park. Near the edge of the forest, Ronja learns just how much of a caveman Eris Renard can be once they reach the site of the disappearance and encounter a da...

At a haunted house on Halloween, high school senior Jordan Peale meets a pretty teen in foster-care named Caley. After a gruesome car accident, she disappears. Five years later he meets her again in a diner outside Brownsville and now her pretty face is scarred with scratch marks and she calls herself Hannah. Jordan is on assignment to film a Halloween documentary and is slated to cover the annual event in Catemaco at the foot of The Mountain of the White Monkey. He tells Hannah he remembe...