A dismembered floater is the last thing Northville Detective Dan Gold wants to find on a dreary autumn day. Kelly, a young runaway, discovered a gruesome corpse in the midst of her own suicide attempt. Dan suspects she has further information. Fortunately, Kelly is taken to Jenny's Shelter, a shelter for homeless children run by Dan's old acquaintance Jennifer Collier. Jenny built the shelter with her husband's money and is admired by everyone in the community.

Dan finds himself drawn to Jenny in romantic ways. Despite Jenny's marriage and the protests of Gold's partner, Xander Nicholson,...

Having multiple personalities sucks. That's how Jennifer Saunders feels even before the brutal day that would change her life forever, a day that would finish with her friends murdered, ghosts talking to her, and telekinesis a part of her everyday life.

Not that Jennifer's a stranger to trauma. Having seen her best friend murdered and dismembered at a young age, Jennifer's mind long ago split off a child persona to cope with the trauma.

Now following in the footsteps of her deceased father, Jennifer begins cloning experiments with a comatose alien. When the alien Insectia awakens,...

The Torture Magic series accelerates as Special Operations must integrate a new member, young Geneva Kane from Maine. But Geneva isn't new to the paranormal. Granddaughter of Gerald Kane, hero of World War II, her family lineage brings her great power and insight. This is quite a contrast from poor Jennifer Saunders. Trapped in a parallel world, Jennifer finds she suddenly must integrate her seven alters or face imminent death. A 'soul' survivor, she must also deal with the souls of her deceased friends, Anissa and Oscar. They both want to rescue her from her catatonic state via an...

The integration of multiple personalities Jennifer Saunders has undergone has worked. Now she, her seven alters, and her two 'soul' survivors, Anissa and Oscar, must return to her native dimension from the parallel world to instigate a plan to save both dimensions. This makes the psychological integration look like skipping rope. Meanwhile, integrating into the world of Special Operations has been challenging for Geneva Kane, but nothing like the ordeal she is about to face. Geneva is kidnapped by the torture magician David Mize to power his probability machine, a device created to control a...

A dismembered floater is the last thing Northville Detective Dan Gold wants to find on a dreary autumn day. Kelly, a young runaway, discovered the gruesome corpse in the midst of her own suicide attempt. Dan suspects she has further information. Fortunately, Kelly is taken to Jenny's Shelter, a shelter for homeless children run by Dan's old acquaintance Jennifer Collier. Jenny built the shelter with her husband's money and is admired by everyone in the community. Dan finds himself drawn to Jenny in romantic ways. Despite Jenny's marriage and the protests of Gold's partner, Xander Nicholson,...

Corrie is the perfect girl. She lives in a nice middle-class home, gets perfect grades, dresses perfectly, and never causes trouble. She acts perfect and looks perfect. But perfection is in the eye of the beholder. In reality, Corrie hides horrible secrets about her family, and her perfection simply covers a shattered girl with no self-esteem. As a result, she's the idea target for bullying from a group of girls in her school, her one escape from her abusive home life. Now even that avenue of escape is stripped away. As the bullying and abuse intensifies, Corrie realizes she is hopelessly...

Masochism. Just a word in a book, but for quiet high school student Alicia Porter, it has drastic ramifications for her life. If there's a word to explain her self-abuse, then maybe she isn't alone. And as she starts college, she discovers this is true. Her new friends, Tabitha and Monica, seem to understand the drive that Alicia has to hurt herself. But what they don't understand are the agonizing and sinister secrets that drive Alicia to such behavior. As Alicia's relationships with her new friends deepen, the secrets held in her subconscious begin to escape. No longer is her masochism and...

A simple home renovation leads to the discovery of a skeleton in the basement. Northville homicide detectives Dan Gold and Xander Nicholson now have a seventeen year-old cold case on their hands, one that initially appears linked to a serial killer operating in Northville at that time. Their investigation soon brings into question Carrie and Kathy Burns, neighbors of Denise at the time of her death. While the detectives have doubts about the original investigation blaming serial killer David Woodley for Denise's death, they also aren't sure what motive Kathy or Carrie would have to harm their...