S.K Epperson

A determined billionaire takes people from refugee camps in the poorest areas around the globe and brings them to the U.S. to live in a grand humanitarian experiment that finds him strung from a tree, bloodied by the Taliban, haunted by an albino African witch then kidnapped by a homeless man with a tattoo on his butt that reads 'No Embalming'. --Provided by publisher.

At a haunted house on Halloween, high school senior Jordan Peale meets a pretty teen in foster-care named Caley. After a gruesome car accident, she disappears. Five years later he meets her again in a diner outside Brownsville and now her pretty face is scarred with scratch marks and she calls herself Hannah. Jordan is on assignment to film a Halloween documentary and is slated to cover the annual event in Catemaco at the foot of The Mountain of the...

And there's still the matter of the abandoned park, back in the hands of a Gooch, a chilling woman who shows no remorse for the crimes of her family and may even have been an offsite participant. A frightening force with ancient roots may be the source of the family's evil, providing a harrowing conundrum: Once you destroy a monster in this life, how do you keep it from coming back in the next?. --Provided by publisher.

Guy Driscoll thinks he's doing the right thing by giving up his job at a Chicago newspaper to get his promiscuous daughter out of the city and into the small town life Guy knew as a child. All he does is deliver her into the line of fire of someone who's reached the desperation point and can see only one way to maintain his standing in the community. Vernon Diest's family has tended the dead of Colson since its inception and he takes his work seriously,...

Excerpt:She had to have used something like Semtex or C4. Park didn't know what else could've taken out the crypt like that and he knew Mina had slyly express-mailed some crazy shit to herself from Iraq.He never thought his baby sis would shoot him though. Surprised as he was to see her, all he could do was stand and gawp when she aimed her weapon. "You've got to be kidding. You're gonna shoot me?""I will if you don't move," she said.Park opened his...

In 1870 Abilene is a destination for cowboys, cattlemen, prostitutes and a family of doctors attempting to practice an unorthodox type of medicine learned in Europe, a technique that involves manipulation of the spine to effect cures and ease minor ailments. Acceptance for their ways has been hard to find, and it's made more difficult by the fact that the Corbett family is Irish. The Corbetts have known their fair share of prejudice and do not share...

The Vision - Three neighbors find themselves sharing a vision of something shockingly grotesque hanging from the fence of the fourth home on the block.They're Closer Than You Think - A tale with a definite warning for boys that shoot arrows at targets in the woods and miss, only to get the bloody broken parts of the arrow back the next day, on the front porch of the family home.Battle's Panther - A local family and a disparate group of people find...

During his son's baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man's leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn't have, went somewhere he never should have gone and paid harsh consequences. His eighteen year old son knows something is up with his dad and confides in his quiet girlfriend, who suffered early trauma of her own and begins to suspect that her boyfriend's...

Centuries ago, an ancient alchemist's taste for young girls saw thirteen-year-old Lura Cartaun fleeing for her life. When he catches her, the old monster gives her a choice. Generations later her descendants are still trying to undo the curse placed upon them, a bind that finds child after child dying because of its name. The end to the bind may be in sight, however, with the appearance of another descendant, that of the evil alchemist, who comes...