In the near future, over thirty black alien ships carrying a race called the Wannoshay crash-land across midwestern America and southern Canada. At first, humans and aliens attempt integration, but it's a hard future plagued with terrorism, violence, suicide cults, and designer drugs. When mysterious explosions at factories employing the aliens are blamed on the Wannoshay, they are forcibly transferred to internment camps. Soon the aliens begin to succumb to a strange disease called "soul curdling" and the sickness seems to be spreading...to humans An unlikely group of humans, with even more...

Magic: more contagious than the common cold...

One wintry morning in Dubuque, Iowa, Kelley Strickland gets "triggered" by magic after reading from a strange book she shoplifts. And her twin brother Jeroan meets an old man who infects him with magic as well. Soon there's an outbreak of contagious magic in Dubuque, Iowa.

Wild magic: the side effects are painful, if not fatal...

When they find themselves hunted by an ancient, power-hungry Sorcerer and his over-sized operatives, Jeroan and Kelley must act, before this wild epidemic of magic turns deadly for...

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. A young woman struggling with drug addiction catches aliens on her digital camera. A man with elemental powers struggles with morality and carrying out the orders of his bosses. The dead leave their graves and take up... surfing? Gunning for the Buddha collects fifteen stories that range from near-future science fiction to historical dark fantasy and contemporary horror, touching on a range of genres in the process. These wide-ranging stories were previously published in magazines such as Asimov's, Strange Horizons, The...

Sometimes those who can't be found just might not be lost...
As the co-founders of Finders, Inc., Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer spent the past two decades successfully solving mysteries and-almost miraculously, in many instances-finding missing people in the remote mountain town of Boone, North Carolina.
Until now.
Their most recent case deals with an outbreak of missing elderly people, all of whom used to teach at nearby Appalachian State University. With the help of teammates Juan and Marly Hernandez, along with Shelby Jamiston, a sharp new private investigator Hank...

Some family curses really should be passed on...
Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself a single parent as well as flat broke.
And, with every full moon, he can't fight the urge to strip off his clothes and run wild through the pastures outside town.
So when a stranger shows up, slashed to death, the day after Tommy's most recent full-moon run, Tommy must resolve this murder or he could lose what little he has left. That includes his innocent baby girl Corinne,...

"Magic: more contagious than the common cold..."
Kelley Strickland and her twin brother Jeroan accidentally step into an ancient battle between a power-hungry Sorcerer-who wants to rid the world of what he calls "renegade" magic-users-and a good Sorcerer who can barely remember his own name.
Kelley soon learns that her new-found way of using magic just might save her adopted city, her brother, and her new, magically infected friends.
Or it could doom them all.
A fantasy novel for all ages about ancient power, growing up, and finding your place within those two very different...

Magic: the side effects are painful, if not fatal...
Two months after the explosive and unexpected ending to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic, Jeroan learns all about magic at Dr. Azure's mysterious training center. Meanwhile, Kelley can't even leave her hotel room in Dubuque without a chaperone.
When people they care about start disappearing, and people they didn't think they should care about-like Dr. Azure-get attacked by rogue magic-users, Jeroan and Kelley must work together. Before this growing epidemic of magic turns deadly.
Unfortunately, they learn too late that magic no...

Contagious magic: good luck trying to find a cure...
Two minutes after the shocking end to A Wild Epidemic of Magic, this third book in the series finds Kelley and Jeroan stranded in Dubuque, Iowa, after losing their parents-and all the Sorcerers they met in the past two months-to the vengeful Druid.
Apparently, the Druid did not enjoy his 200-year banishment.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, the twins must once again work together to find a way to regain all of their magic, before time-and magic-runs out for good.
The fantastic third book in the Contagious Magic...

"A haunted romance. An unsolved mystery. And a centuries-old curse at the heart of it all."
Off the rough coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man-the infamous pirate Blackbeard. She must identify a shipwreck off the coast of the island, but she and her divemaster Mitch Thompson discover much more than that.
They just have to stay alive long enough to solve the mystery of a young girl's killer before the ghosts of dead pirates take them down to the bottom of the ocean, forever.
A haunted romance, a lovestruck mystery, and a pirate-filled adventure....

Sometimes you eat the forest, sometimes the forest eats you.
What would you do if your child was lost, and-even though you'd never admit this to anyone-it was all your fault? How would you react? Would you be a hero or a coward? And just how would you get your innocent child out of this situation?
These are all questions Gil Anderson faces when his five-year-old son goes missing somewhere in the dark trees at the edge of the family farm. On that fateful day, Gil must travel through his own version of hell to rescue his child before the forest eats them all.
What Gil doesn't...