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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 mother he planned never to see again. The past complicates the present, and to endure what’s being asked of him he’ll need to forgive some and open his hands to others. He’ll cope in his own implacable fashion, but first he has to ensure everyone survives someone called The Magician, and then somehow capture a kidnapper about to be abducted himself. By aliens.
(Eris Renard is the ten years after sequel to Green Lake, description below.)
2018 release: A May December romance with a tinge of October mayhem.
Sam Post just wants to help his new employee, the sullen diminutive Anna. He doesn’t know she’s sullen for a reason or that her autistic hyper-sexual brother may kill him for trying to do it.
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THE DEVIL LIVES IN LAWRENCE 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 about crime that cost Eve her job and follows her everywhere, bringing back people from her past that she’d rather not think about, let alone face, particularly when Nate keeps bringing up nearby Stull, and the nation’s fascination with the place believers call one of the “Seven doorways to hell.”
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ROLLERCOASTER
Four years ago, Breton “Eaton” Stone lost his little sister inside an abandoned amusement park. He’s gone back to look for her every day since. It’s how he knows about the Japanese film crew the new owner’s musician brother Moe Sexton is sent in to find. It’s how he knows about cameras placed around the park, and strange noises every night. He sees lots of people who shouldn’t be in the overgrown post-anyone-giving-a-shit wasteland and he’d rather none of them were there, because they’re only making his task more difficult. The good news is, with the unwitting help of all these strangers he’s going to find his sister. The bad news is that she is no longer the girl he knew. And she has a friend.
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ROLLERCOASTER 2: After the Fall now available!
Two of the young girls rescued from the abandoned amusement park are teenagers now, and though everyone believes their nightmare is over, for Audra Stone and Gretel Gooch, living in the real world with normal people may prove scarier than the corpse-filled room in the park’s tunnel.
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BROTHER LOWDOWN
Three people with dark pasts meet when a drifter called Brother Lowdown comes to town. Simon Brith is a detective known for his intense reactions to females. Terra Donlevy is a cosmetics heiress who eschews anything feminine and harbors a violent abhorrence of most men. The oddly beautiful but twisted Brother Lowdown will target both in his terrible need for justice.
(See the sequel to Brother Lowdown, The Tiger’s Spring description below.)
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DUMFORD BLOOD
The birth of Edie Jackson’s baby will at last make the population of tiny Dumford, Kansas a thousand people, a number they would have reached a month ago if the latest baby born hadn’t disappeared from its crib a day after arriving home. Edie’s brother, police officer Ben Portlock realizes someone in their secretive little town has a thing for killing pregnant animals and he’s worried, not just because his sweet scatterbrained sister Edie is close to her due date, but because his old flame Lura Taylor has come home to Dumford after spending eight years in prison for killing her father. Ben knows which direction wagging fingers will begin to point once the people in town realize there is someone among them with a taste for grisly death.
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BORDERLAND
With the help of womanizing fireman friend Nolan Wulf, widowed ex-cop Vic Kimmler packs up his bags and his two little girls and hits the road to take over a stud farm on the Colorado border. What no one told him is that the house he’s inherited is haunted, and the town wants Vic to use his skills and take over where his late father left off.
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NIGHTMARE
On a remote ranch deep in the Flint Hills at a clinic for women diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, patients are dying in extremely violent ways. The staff has invited Dr. Bryan Raleigh and his team, along with his journalist brother, David, to write about the clinic, and from the moment of their arrival they begin to unravel secrets about the family that owns the ranch, including a strange blood ritual practiced by the hemophiliac son and even more bizarre rites performed by the grotesque, voyeuristic wife of the clinic’s director. Soon David and the others begin to suspect the rude, imperious woman who never leaves the third floor may be somehow responsible for the deaths of traumatized patients dying one by one, and the closer they get to the truth, the bigger the threat becomes to their own safety.
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THE MOONS OF SUMMER
Guy Driscoll thinks he’s doing the right thing by giving up his job at a Chicago newspaper to get his promiscuous daughter out of the city and into the small town life Guy knew as a child. All he does is deliver her into the line of fire of someone who’s reached the desperation point and can see only one way to maintain his standing in the community. Vernon Diest’s family has tended the dead of Colson since its inception and he takes his work seriously, though Elma, his shy, thin, deaf mute step-sister has not been as well tended. Still, she adores Vernon and will do anything for him…to a point.
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Nurse Abra Ahrens is hired to care for a man she believes is HIV positive but it’s a lie perpetrated by his brother, her boss, the chief of staff at the hospital. He chose Abra because she has a reputation as a recluse and has no real relationships outside the hospital besides her mother, noted psychiatrist Lee Ahrens. That changes when Abra meets handsome next door neighbor, Zane Campbell, an ex-detective turned ocularist and medical artist. Like Abra, Zane doesn’t get out much, primarily because no one can understand his speech when he talks, thanks to the bullet in the face that ended his police career. His youngest son Eli makes fun and mimics his father, but is sobered by his older brother Holt’s news that a girl from their neighborhood has gone missing. Another neighbor, a retarded adult named Chance finds a bike near a bridge and when Eli sees the bike he recognizes it as the missing girl’s. Neighbor Mark Vaughn, a car dealer with a criminal past would love for the swarm of police that descends to deal with the deafening bird problem caused by the people next door to him. Craig Peterwell’s dozen exotic birds screech, squawk and scream day and night, making sleep impossible for Mark and his wife Valerie’s baby daughter. When confronted, Peterwell becomes angry. Craig Peterwell has been getting angry a lot lately. He can’t understand why no one listens to him. He wants his wife Louise to listen but she doesn’t, and in the space of a few minutes on a warm summer evening Craig Peterwell sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life, and the face of the neighborhood, forever.
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GREEN LAKE
Suddenly widowed and penniless Madeleine Heron is forced to move into her sister’s vacation cabin on rural Green Lake, next door to taciturn Native American conservation officer Eris Renard. Instead of the peace and solitude she hopes to find at the lake Madeleine finds herself witness to depravity, blackmail, and murder among the strange residents. And in spite of the danger, she falls in love.
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SATYR’S GRAZE
In half-hearted collusion with a neighbor desperate to find a runaway husband, architect Etta Baxter agrees to vacation on the mid-California coast in the sleepy town of Satyr’s Graze, where she steps into a magnificent stone house with a monster on the outside in the form of a gargoyle and discovers there might be a monster lurking on the inside as well. The possibility of a peaceful retreat vanishes as event after event places Etta at the center of conflict. She becomes part of a blood-soaked crime and meets a family she won’t soon forget, particularly when one of the owners, a wheelchair bound psychic named Toby, who has a tall, handsome twin called Noel, claims Etta has known all of them before, in lives lived thousands of years ago, and that someone or some ‘thing’ among them has unfinished business with everyone in the house.
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SLAUGHTERS OF THE RACE
While doing a stint for bank fraud the unlucky Joe Riggins meets kindly Chung Zhang whom he learns murdered nine women in a bizarre soul mate creating scheme for old money back in China. In prison the elderly man is his mentor, but Zhang befriended Joe for a reason, he realizes after women start dying again upon Joe’s release. As he begins to suspect the plan for his downfall is bigger than anyone can imagine, involving perhaps his own government, unexpected help comes in the form of cool, inhibited and very British restaurant owner Hester Haley and the unlikeliest ally of all, a cop who believes him.
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THE TIGER’S SPRING
Sequel to Brother Lowdown
Cosmetics heiress Terra Donlevy shuns the trappings of wealth and lives a simple life with a modest security system and a few dogs to keep her safe. Junius Redwine is newly out of prison and becomes increasingly insistent that Terra place a value on the life his son Leon saved when he prevented Terra’s murder at the hands of deadly Joshua Bern, also known as Brother Lowdown. For protection Terra relies heavily on Simon Brith, the troubled homicide detective who has made a habit of rescuing her, but things are changing between them. Simon wants Terra but she stalls at every turn, frustrating him almost as much as the latest case he and his partner Dan Cox have pulled. Someone is killing men and dumping their bodies in a windbreak. Known misogynist Simon zeroes in on tall, exotic Ivory Pandeen, exquisite with her black hair, dark eyes and long legs and if Terra Donlevy attracts one kind of man, Ivory attracts another. All of them want something from these two women and a few are going to be surprised to find out just what they receive.
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Short Story Collections:
THE VISION AND OTHER TALES
A collection of tales by the author of Brother Lowdown, Borderland, The Moons of Summer, The Neighborhood and Green Lake. Join in for the mysterious happening in The Vision and stick around until the final gasp of The Last Secret.
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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.
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Written as S.J. STRAYHORN:
BLACK NIGHT
Some crimes are too horrible to forget, and some just keep happening over and over again. In a town where a frontier military fort was once converted to an orphanage for destitute children, dark deeds took place. A woman who lived there has come back to face down the ghosts that torment her but when her daughter falls for the ex-con next door she realizes the past is about to repeat itself.
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Written as DYLAN HARSON:
KANSAS BLUE by S.K. Epperson writing as Dylan Harson
Former Cavalry Lieutenant Austin Bourke wants to break free of his past, and leading a group of people who seek to take advantage of the Homestead Act in Kansas seems like the best way to do it, until he meets Danni Coopersand, a golden-haired woman saddled with a husband broken by the war and a half-breed Indian youth with a need for revenge against the white stepbrothers who slit his throat and left him to die. Together they travel across the plains of Kansas with a group including a Mormon family with more than one wife, one of them with a salacious past, and they encounter renegades, floods and savagery from Indians bent on retaining their way of life. At the end of the trail only the strong will survive, and in 1867 Kansas, where the horizon is endless and the sky goes on forever, the strong are damned few.
ABILENE by S.K. Epperson writing as DYLAN HARSON
In 1870 Abilene is a destination for cowboys, cattlemen, prostitutes and a family of doctors attempting to practice an unorthodox type of medicine learned in Europe, a technique that involves manipulation of the spine to effect cures and ease minor ailments. Acceptance for their ways has been hard to find, and it’s made more difficult by the fact that the Corbett family is Irish. The Corbetts have known their fair share of prejudice and do not share the same attitude toward Indians as those they meet in Abilene. Young Maura Corbett is fascinated by the angry, wounded Tasunka Sapa, (Black Horse) brought in by his worried elderly father to have two bullets removed. Eden Corbett is equally fascinated by a beautiful woman in a wheelchair he meets inside a store then learns she is housed inside a brothel. His offer to treat her is rescinded once he learns her address, but his father and sister force him to reconsider, and soon all their lives are changed by the dangerous people and harsh life of the burgeoning town on the Kansas prairie.
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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 through as a child, may in fact have made the acquaintance of her family’s killer long ago, and now both are determined to go back and find the truth about what lies in Betsy Klausmeyer’s cellar. (Warning: Not for the squeamish.)
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A search for diamonds on an island with a history of murder and insanity leads Sutton De Berg and her adopted older brother Gerard Brach to remember feelings they suppressed years ago. But Sutton’s father, the wealthy Edward De Berg, and her French husband, Paul Dubois, have nefarious plans for any treasures found on the island, and the ghosts that haunt the atoll will wreak havoc and take lives before its deeper truth is revealed, more dangerous than any of them ever imagined.
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A woman and her two young daughters on a ship filled with starving, dying Irish emigrants encounters a bigger challenge than an unknown future in America when she is faced with saving the lives of two people, the captain’s wife, and a recalcitrant English lord fleeing a murder charge.
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Centuries ago, an ancient alchemist’s taste for young girls found thirteen-year-old Lura Cartaun fleeing for her life. After he caught her, the old monster offered a choice. Generations later, her descendants are still trying to undo the curse placed upon them, a bind that finds child after child dying because of its name. The end to the bind may be in sight, however, with the appearance of another descendant, that of the evil alchemist, who comes to town and decides to do some grave digging. What he unearths causes the entire population of the town to be placed under quarantine, but it also brings two people together whose union has been centuries in the making.
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A golden-throated Brit and his sidekick cameraman try to survive an exclusive gala for the devil’s daughter during the Annual Convention of Witches and Wizards in Catemaco, Mexico.
A man hired to guard a crypt is betrayed by his ex-soldier sister who knows only part of what’s inside and doesn’t count on there being something else hidden in the gypsy crypt that not only the relatives, but every warring nation on the planet would kill to get their hands on.
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Caleb Watchman steps out of a building and into another time, 1918 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where he rides in a model T, samples absinthe, observes people under siege from influenza and gains dangerous knowledge about the future. He returns home to impart one thing: There is always a bear.
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A death row inmate with only days left to live is recruited by the FBI to obtain information from a wealthy, arrogant Egyptian believed to be behind the murders of several hundred women across the border.
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After escaping a savage kidnapping, earnest girl of science Marti Zaroni goes to her wealthy Uncle Zito for protection instead of the police. She wants him to stop the diabolical men who took her captive and to rescue the unwitting boy who aided in her escape. Zito’s godson and right hand man Angelo Merona is pleased to see her. He’s in love with the stubborn Marti and will do everything he can to help her but first has to deal with his mother, who believes she’s possessed by a demon that has plagued their two families for centuries. Angelo doesn’t have to worry, with his unusual green eyes he’s blessed and no demon will touch him. But everyone around him is fair game Marti learns as she decides to take on her abductors herself.
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From 1871 to 1873 a series of murders committed by a family who called themselves the Benders took place in Kansas. The father, mother, son and daughter took in weary travelers and offered a warm bed to sleep for the night, but dinnertime brought more than a hot meal to the unsuspecting guests. Skulls were caved in, throats were slit. Anything of value was stolen and later sold. Their bodies were buried in shallow graves beyond the farmhouse.
In modern day Coffeyville, Kansas a fussy private investigator is sent to determine the identity of a certain inn keeper and finds himself wondering if history is about to repeat itself in a very personal way, more meaningful to him than he could ever have imagined.
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A downed plane full of passengers is halved by two realms, one that looks a lot like the hot, dry desert of the southwest, and one that doesn’t, where the flora is blue trees with curly leaves and the fauna is something no one on board has ever seen, but which has obviously seen humans before and is determined to begin taking their pick of the survivors.
A determined billionaire takes people from refugee camps in the poorest areas around the globe and brings them to the U.S. to live in a grand humanitarian experiment that finds him strung from a tree, bloodied by the Taliban, haunted by an albino African witch then kidnapped by a homeless man with a tattoo on his butt that reads No Embalming.
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Two grieving cousins discover much they did not know about their lost loved one and his role in keeping their town free of the horror that descends upon his death. Bad things, terrible things occur with escalating intensity and once Griffin and Flynn Littleton acknowledge the part they are destined to play, they realize they need all the help they can get. Enter physicist Elsa Maplethorpe, her reporter son Jordan, and ex-husband, Episcopalian priest Jonas, a.k.a. the Right Hand of God. Along with Flynn and Griffin they battle the evil unleashed using the weapon buried deep beneath their cursed Colorado home. But in every battle there are losses, and just as light is never completely extinguished, neither is the dark.
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