Book Table

In the haunted village of Thorston, danger does not lie behind every door. Just one.

Sten Carter's best friends Jeff Coyne and Vanessa Solomon are in love, and he's happy for them. He's happy when Jeff abandons the city for a quiet life in the country village of Thorston. The rural peace seems the best place for Jeff to recover from his breakdown, and maybe even make a life for him and Vanessa.

Then Jeff disappears.

As he searches for answers, Sten will uncover his friend's obsession with the village's past - and Thorston is a place of many hidden histories. There is the ruined Hall, and the men who let it burn. There are the unexplained murders that left the village priest a broken man. And there is the lost old lady, endlessly repeating a ritual she no longer understands.

Sten and Vanessa must unravel what links these tragic events throughout Thorston's past, because now more than Jeff's life is at stake. Somewhere in Thorston there is a door, and if it opens, they will not survive....

Time to die, Simon Aulus.

It's been five years since the terrible events in Thorston drove Simon Aulus out of the police. Five years to rebuild his life after running as far away as he could. Now manager of a business intelligence firm in Tokyo, he's just about stable again.

All that will change when he gets a call from a corporate client: her son has gone missing while hiking in the mountains of rural Japan. At first, he doesn't think he can help; he's not police and never was in this country.

But the trail leads to Hiramatsu Lake, where four young people are trapped by the cold and angry dead. Aulus will have to face his past and use what he has learned, or his fate will be worse than death....

When Dave Weston is offered part time bar work, it seems like the perfect route out of his dead-end job. Enjoying booze and 'benefits' as he runs wedding banquets and rich-kid parties for his strange new employer, Dave think he could happily spend the rest of his life in catering. And perhaps he will. Just not the way he intended.

I was all set for the best summer of my life. The agency had me working as a driver at a car auction, and it was nice cars all day, every day. Then Gary the Egg Guy showed up trying to sell his 'investments,' and then, well, then stuff got weird...

'A Pyramid Scheme' is a short horror story about a very different kind of scam.

Reggie Tiller has spent 40 years in the aerospace industry. He has seen fear, and faced it down. Now retired, he wants to enjoy his time and his life, and accepts an invitation to visit with friends on one of Hong Kong's outlying islands. But what Reggie understands as fear will be tested, as he blunders into the pain of a hidden past...