In this first volume of tales from novelist Chris Rogers, you'll travel inside the minds of unpredictable characters from both sides of death's bony grasp: a young photographer stumbling in the footsteps of a serial killer; a 911 dispatcher working the lunatic shift; a blood-soaked lover whose cries of innocence go unheard; a writer who would kill for a great story; a cop facing the damned-foolest case of his career; a confectioner who sugarcoats bites of murder; a desirable woman of strangely insatiable appetites. In the spirit of Rod Serling, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock, these...

Dixie Flannigan, Houston bounty hunter, is "willing to get down and dirty with the lowest of the low in order to land her man."* But this time she's pursuing a young woman, and the chase takes Dixie deep into a family's bloodiest secrets.

In a second volume of creepy good tales from master storyteller Chris Rogers, the bony grasp of Death reaches out again to draw you to the lurking shadows of the dark side. You'll meet a fledgling serial killer about to escape incarceration; a lady cop whose professional skepticism jeopardizes her marriage; a college student earning tuition the old fashioned way; a retired homicide detective whose hound-dog sense sniffs out the wrong murderer; a Texas Ranger who discovers a place where bullets are useless; a country dweller who angers an army; and a boy who uses creative chicanery to protect...