It had been years since Cody could drum up the nerve to leave Chicago, not after, well, he stopped the pictures from resurfacing. He didn't need the terror of it sneaking into him right now, challenging his courage as he drove along the bumpy paved road. For this first trip outside the city he'd chosen a small cookie-cutter safe town in southern Illinois named Keebler Ridge. His therapist had encouraged him. She'd felt this would be a good baby-step back into that "big bad" world he projected out there, waiting for him like some beast waits in the bush for its prey. Just drive down, she'd...

All Piper asks of Life is to let him be, to let him live in peace on his converted coastal freighter the Lost Soul. This boat, his home, is anchored off a small island in Thailand named Koh Samui. Piper wants to forget the world and the tragic part he's played in it. His only two friends are the beautiful Boon and husband Tony who own the twelve bungalows on the beach of Bophut Bay, the same bay off which his boat rocks gently in the Koh Samui breezes. Existence, while not great, is buried deep enough behind Piper's barricades to convince him everything is fine, no changes needed. Ah, but you...

The second book in the Piper series finds our man still living on an island in Thailand. Despite Piper's best intentions to stay out of other people's problems, he's soon conned into doing another favor. A Simple Favor. This new adventure leads him into strange worlds beyond his understanding, a place where ghosts have doctors.