Blue Ridge Nuclear Energy is the largest and safest nuclear energy facility on earth, until the impossible occurs. A mushroom cloud arises from a reactor. Freak electrical events plague nearly every home. There are no answers, no evidence, and as soon as it seems the worst is over, new horrors begin. First responders abandon their posts. Teachers desert their classrooms. The citizens of Thompson are stricken with a strange affliction. Enraged hordes of the ailing gather in the streets, and...

Thus with a kiss, you die....Elysium is a mysterious estate of beauty and grace. Exquisite antiquities are not the only amenities awaiting visitors. Life there is murder.Melanie Smallwood has always loved the old estate. She is shocked when an unexpected windfall eliminates all that was familiar. She purchases the antebellum house to restore it.Strange incidents begin as soon as she moves in. The realtor is the first to suffer a strange affl...

Clarissa Tyler came from a good home with loving parents and a wide circle of friends. She, and her fiancé Nick, both prepared for college graduation and dreamed of a successful life together.Until the accident happened. Until Nick died and that sheltered world collapsed.She wakes in a remote and unfamiliar hospital after two months in a physician-induced fugue state. She is surrounded by an eccentric staff that won't provide any details about the accident. She is given a g...

Sylvia Drake enjoys a life filled with simple pleasures in 1857. She loves her Appalachian Mountains, but doesn't want to remain in Hickory Hollow forever. Her parents even begin preparations for her to attend college.Just as her dreams seem to be coming true, her world is shattered. As if the losses aren't bad enough, she finds someone has ventured into madness, and the time has come for everyone to pay the price.

Hangar 408 of the Nelson Airfield is legendary in the paranormal world. It has been studied, evaluated, and investigated by the most respected paranormal professionals in the nation. Phillip Moore knows it's a farce. The professional skeptic is eager to end the fear-mongering.Time is nearly out for the old place. The demolition team prepares to raze the historic hangar by the week's end. He quickly gathers his team and sets out to reveal the truth behind the lore. Within hours, he ...

Shock, preoccupation, and indifference are seemingly mild emotions; however, prove to be disastrous in the right set of circumstances. These strange characters are caught up in their own curious circumstances, and the choices they make lead them in astonishing directions.Stories include: "The White House," "It's a Small World," "Impasse," "A Dead Rose," "Kerosene," "Zimbiki," "Witchbook," "The Last Kiss," "COLD," "Hair of the Dog," and more.~Lowered Price for a Limited Time...

Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood…Years later, a headmistress is found strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. But when human remains are discovered at a former children’s home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed.Detect...

The greater the evil, the deadlier the game…When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work.With the investigation quickly gathering momentum, Kim finds herself exposed to great danger and in the sights of a lethal individual undertaking their own twisted e...

This riveting suspense thriller explores the special bond between a brother and sister when Richard Baimbridge rushes back to his coastal hometown of Wilmington, NC, to assist with his sister's recovery after she's brutally attacked and crippled investigating the rape of a 13-year-old. Coming face to face with his tormented past and a dark family secret, he fights to stay above the flood of childhood trauma and, serving as his sister's legs, is drawn into the dark underside of this quiet c...

Two girls go missing. Only one will return.The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing couple will not. Make no mistake. One child will die.When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms the unthinkable: that the girls are the victims of a terrifying kidnapping.And when a second text message pits the two families ...

The girl stared unseeing up to the blue sky. Her mouth was open, as if she was about to speak, to cry for help… but her voice had been silenced forever. When Detective Kim Stone and her team are sent to Westerley, a forensic research facility, they discover the body of a young woman, her mouth filled with soil. But she doesn’t belong there. It seems a killer has discovered the perfect cover for their crime.Kim breaks the devastating news of Jemima’s ...

How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace?A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring mother and social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But for Detective Kim Stone, something doesn’t add up. When a local drug addict is found murdered with an identical wound, Kim knows instinctively that she is dealing with the same killer. But with nothing to link the two victim...