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Harlan "Red" Roosevelt, easy going Sheriff of the tiny mountain town of Mitchelville, West Virginia, is forced to deal with what might be a homicide just outside of town. Thought not a skilled investigator, he soon realizes that what he's facing is something not quite human. In order to solve the mystery he has to venture up to the stark, forbidding wilderness of the sweeping mountains that loom over the small town. There he encounters something impossible, which might shatter the world's understanding of the universe and call into question what it means to be human.

Sitting high atop a mountain in the wilderness of North Carolina, the mostrous structure called Summerlane draws in four strangers seeking answers to problems currently plaguing their lives. Trapped inside this sprawling horror they learn its secrets and dangers. Their only hope for survival is to find a means of escape... but to where?

Smoking is one activity that many people wish they could quit but have either told themselves (or been told) it is too difficult to accomplish without spending money or enduring great discomfort. This book outlines a technique I developed and used to completely quit smoking after a habit of 50 years. I believe this simple technique could work for just about anyone.

This sequel to "Scent of Damnation" focuses on Mallory, mysterious and immortal. She has walked the Earth for almost thirty millennia, feeding on one human weakness - we are ruled by our biology. Born when mankind wandered aimlessly, hunting for food and survival, she has watched human civilization rise, fall and rise again, throughout the ages. And each step of the way she has sought to understand us, find some meaning in our all too brief lives. Here are presented four brief glimpses of her early life, composed by her late companion, Daniel, from her birth, through the long lost first ...

Virginal Debbie and inexperienced Robert are nervously awaiting their wedding night, hoping to please one another in that final, unexplored element of their relationship. But before they can consummate their marriage they are yanked into the distant future where they will have to go on a quest to distant worlds, engage in unthinkable behavior and, with any luck, save the shining blue planet, Earth.

A series of essays about the craft of acting, the various major techniques actors use, and some information about a specific technique that makes acting fun, exciting and a joy to engage in, without the self-imposed suffering actors sometimes inflict on themselves.

Former Chicago police officer Johnny Sundown is just starting out on his new career as a private investigator, helping clean up the streets of the city in the wake of the Second World War. But he is different than others in his profession. He is a full-blooded Sioux, born the Dakota Badlands. He is the last Shadow Warrior, charged with protecting the world from those evils others can't even see. He is the sole surviving Power Wielder of the Anisazi School of Magic. And he is about to tackle his first case on his own. If he fails the outcome may be to end not only his career, but the ...

Jake Tyler, a college junior currently flunking out of a small, mid-western university, tries to get some much needed science course credit by volunteering to have his brain recorded digitally to test some new software. He was not at all prepared to wake up 2,500 years in the future, in a different body, into a world that had somehow managed to lose the whole of human history, nor to find himself the most famous man on the planet. Now, if he can only manage to find a beer....

1966, Drum's Crossroad, North Carolina. Court-ordered desegregation is about to sweep over the lives of the town's citizens, white and black. Tensions are rising, and trouble is sure to follow. Mama Kodo, a mysterious, seemingly ageless black woman who dwells in a shack deep in the woods just outside town, is waiting. Soon, she will do what only she can: work her magic as the town teeters on the edge of something made of hatred, power, and vengeance.

They are unique, possessing abilities that skirt the edges of scientific understanding. They could be heroes or merely freaks. And they live among us. They are Class Fives - special people in a mundane world.

Jonathan Hemming has been drifting through life even since a conviction for manufacturing illegal drugs derailed his hopes for a career as a chemist. Having moved across the country to start a new life, he is swept up into a nightmare world of sex and horror when he encounters a being from the dawn of human history, hiding among us.

The second book in the Class Fives series, Development follows the three known Class Fives as they battle with their own lives and a frightening new threat that may destroy the government of the United States.

December, 1941 The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor, plunging America into war! A young Lakota Sioux named Wi Mahel Iyaya Ozuye, trained in the ways of combat and power, runs off to Chicago from his Dakota Badlands home to join up, only to discovered he is not wanted by any branch of the service. Now calling himself John Sundown, an approximation of his Sioux name, he is given the opportunity to serve in a different form: as a Chicago police officer. But Johnny has a secret. He is not just a warrior. He is also a power user. A magician. And during his first year on the dark, chilly streets of ...

In the not too distant future things have changed, and Santa Barbara police detective John Harrow is stuck with the strangest case of his career. A serial murderer, dubbed the "Pop Top Killer", is scooping the brains out of his victims, leaving them scattered across the floor. As he works through the bizarre case Harrow discovers it might connect to national security issues far beyond his control. Calling on the Santa Barbara Medical Examiner, Dr. Ricky Goforth, and his former partner, Detective Mario Montemayor, Harrow picks his way through mysterious connections between the local ...

The extraordinary people known as the Class Fives face a devastating moral choice which turns them against the secret government agency for whom they work and threatens to expose them to a world not ready to know the frightening truth.

Johnny Sundown, full blooded Sioux warrior, Private Eye, working the streets of 1950's Chicago, is confronted with a deadly new case that threatens to rip the town apart. Someone is sending zombies on a killing spree, and Johnny must find out who before all hell breaks out.

Johnny Sundown, full blooded Sioux warrior, Private Eye, working the streets of 1950's Chicago, is confronted with a deadly new case that threatens to rip the town apart. Someone is sending zombies on a killing spree, and Johnny must find out who before all hell breaks out.

Former Chicago police officer, now Private Detective Johnny Sundown, is approached by another power wielder to help locate his missing brother, hiding somewhere in the mean streets of Chicago. As they search Johnny begins to realize this magician is unlike any he has ever before encountered.Entirely self-taught and able to use powers beyond anything Johnny can understand, this mysterious client is one of thirteen brothers who need to reunite after a lifetime apart, in order to face some approaching danger which might threaten not just their family, but the fate of all mankind.Because ...

Stephen and Barbara Hopewell are a happily married young couple, very much in love with one another and content with their life together. But each has hidden, private longings, secret desires, unexpressed even to one another. Hungers they are supposed to bear in silence, which society frowns upon even whispering. While moving through the relatively new phenomenon that is the Internet, they discover a world of the secret, the forbidden, the powerfully erotic which they can explore in perfect privacy. Discovering each other's dark interest, they agree to a quest of discovery that will make ...

At last revealed to the world, Roger Malloy assumes the identity of the mysterious hero known only as John Doe. While the human race attempts to adjust to this stunning phenomenon, Roger must now struggle to preserve his former life in anonymity, but his new one as a savior. But can he be all things to all people, and still remain himself? Or has he stepped into a growing nightmare that will destroy his life while he attempts to serve the "greater good"?