When Commander William Jern and his wife Gayle are given an opportunity to move into one of the spacious Colonial homes on the Village Green, they jump at the chance. But the Jern's new dream home quickly becomes an icy nightmare, as death stalks them relentlessly. It comes unheralded out of the night, and like all of us, they are dreadfully unprepared. But regardless, William Jern must face terrors beyond imagination in order to save his daughter whose body had become a frozen vessel for The Horror Of The Shade. With the help of his son Will, a boy struggling to find the courage to be a man,...

The Demon is back...and Will Jern, the man who banished it eight years ago is called upon again, to pit himself against the fiend. With the lives of five children at stake, and time running out to save them, Will must find Luke, the man responsible for bringing the demon back, all the while battling a foe that is quite beyond him. Not the demon, but his own sister. Despite all the sacrifices to save her from the demon, 8 years previously, Talitha Jern came back from her time in hell, changed. At once, she is the sweet innocent sister that he has always loved, but she is also a diabolical...

Greed, terrorism, and simple bad luck conspire to bring mankind to its knees as a viral infection spreads out of control, reducing those infected to undead horrors that feed upon the rest. It's a time of misery and death for most, however there are some who are lucky, some who are fast, and some who are just too damned tough to go down without a fight. This is their story.

Jesse Clarke, new to the town of Ashton, finds herself hated the moment she sets foot in her new high school. From her bus driver who is about to lose his job, to the principal who fears a revolt by his teaching staff, Jesse is the object of their anger and frustration. Her crime? She's the daughter of the new town manager, a conservative who is trying to save Ashton from sinking into bankruptcy under the weight of a bloated town government. He's making her life hell by cutting jobs left and right. Though he is untouchable in his high offices, Jesse isn't. She has to walk amongst the friends...

And he lived happily ever after. For just the briefest time Will Jern thought there could be a chance at the perfect fairy tale ending, but then he discovers there's a stranger in his home and that his wife is being held captive by a witch bent on vengeance. And she lived happily ever after. These are the words that Talitha Jern wishes to be applied to her headstone, but it will never happen. Heaven is for those whose hands aren't stained with the blood of loved ones, it's for those whose ears don't still ring with their screams. When her demon was banished back to the Void, it left behind...

Twelve-year-old Audrey Wyatt bears the unfortunate nickname "Odd." A name, even her bar hopping, alcoholic mother uses-when she's sober enough even to recognize the girl. Odd doesn't protest. This is her life and it can be no other way, not when she's deformed as she is. Born with a combination of rare birth defects, Odd's eyes are a startling and dreadful red. Demon eyes is the first thought that springs to mind and the little girl takes care to hide them behind dark sunglasses. This is something her mother insists on, except when she's trading freak show peeks for dollars or drinks. A...

Beaten and battered in mind and body, the fugitives limp west, unaware that the human world is fading all around them, unaware that the last remnants of the goodness of man is being ground under the heel of evil at every turn. When confronted with that evil, fight or flight are their only choices, however, Neil's small group is hamstrung, forced to take on more refugees who come to them empty-handed, unarmed, and hungry. Neil is faced with the disturbing prospect of guiding them across two thousand miles of zombie-plagued-land, only to stumble at his first hurdle: the mighty Mississippi has...

Nothing is simple anymore in this new Undead world. Crossing the street, making tea, meeting new people, all can turn deadly in a twitch of an eye. For the Renegades who are unarmed and hounded across half the state by bounty hunters, there's only one thing that they can say is simple: dying. Surrounded by enemies and without the help of the imprisoned Captain Grey, they flee from one trap into another with little besides the wit of Jillybean and Neil's steadfast leadership to keep them alive. Is it enough? Not by a long shot. They have to dig deep and take wild chances to stay out of the...