When handsome jock Drew Thor agrees to help intellectual loner Logan Kotaro with an after school assignment, he has no idea what he's getting into. What begins as a simple drama class project-two guys in a room doing a scene about two guys in a room-soon spirals into a nightmare scenario, where fantasy and reality intersect, and a dark force that has slumbered for nearly seven years begins to stir.

JB is an affable, claustrophobic, daydreaming eighteen-year-old pop star with a kind heart and a passion for making music. Swaggy is a pleasure-driven, smooth-talking, manipulative narcissist with a hair-trigger temper and a voracious lust for fame. Though the two have been inextricably linked since time out of memory and share a bond far greater than mere brotherhood-indeed they share the same body-Swaggy has long believed their "partnership" to be less than equitable, and secretly dreams of the day he will step from the shadows of their collective consciousness and into the spotlight. When...

Daniel and Brandon appear to be a couple of average teens who like to read comic books, make movies with their camera, skate outside the local video shop with friends, and even play an elaborate version of hide-and-seek on the sprawling grounds of the botanical gardens after dark. But these two boys from Manchester, England, are anything but average teens. Best mates since they met on their first day of school in the States, they share not only an unbreakable bond but a secret destiny as well - a destiny that arrives, as if triggered by the hand of fate itself, when all-American jock and...

"At the time, I would have said that it all began with the matchbook . . . the black matchbook with the Greek symbols written on the inside flap-a coded message that would lead me some eighty miles up into the densely wooded hills of Pierpoint, Pennsylvania, to a Gothic-looking establishment known as The Black Otter . . . At the time, I would have believed this without question. But in retrospect, I would have to say that it really all began with the painting of the naked boy." So begins the odyssey of Jack McGregor, an idealistic young high school teacher, who stumbles upon a mystery when he...