Something creeps under the floorboards of the Rutherford Estate, the fortress where Eileen Morgan spends her sixteenth summer in Fife, Scotland -- a usually quiet community but where locals have been experiencing freak accidents -- stampeding by bull and falling to their deaths in the North Sea. The inheritance of the estate is now in question. Will it disappear into a tax shelter, will it go to the fawning butler, or to shy Ewan Stalker, the estranged farmer grandson? Eileen must choose who to help in this controversy, and she must choose right lest she, herself, be gored by the bull or...

Laerka is Southern Gothic adventure in which a teen rescue party takes on a Russian crime ring that has been selling girls to night clubs in Savannah, Georgia. One particular victim, Laerka, is a Danish girl who transforms into a mermaid when in water. The crime boss who masterminds the trafficking morphs into a "vodyanoy" dragon when he hunts girls for the skin trade. Sixteen-year-old Stella Delaney, a Savannah local, finds Vodyanoy's first victim floating face down in the marsh. Can she save Learka from this fate or is the foreign beauty a criminal, herself? She and the traffickers share...