Inhuman (2010)

 

A licentious witch, who sleeps with the married men in her quiet religious community, conjures up an incubus to destroy those who abandoned her.  After inhabiting the body of a sexually curious farm girl, the beast unleashes a bloody rampage of revenge and carnal pleasure before being sealed into dormancy by the local clergy. 

 

One hundred and fifty years later, that seal is broken.  Isolated from her friends, eighteen-year-old Sadie is broody and restless—an easy target.  She begins to witness unexplainable events, as if something unseen is pulling the strings.  First come the nightmares and disturbing visions, doors closing and items moving on their own, and then disembodied voices.  When Sadie’s behavior degrades to sleepwalking, a violent attack on her boyfriend and acts of sexual depravity, the family begins to wonder if the activity is paranormal or if she is showing symptoms of mental illness.  Out of desperation, they turn to a parade of clergy, psychics, therapists, and a paranormal investigation team for help.  What they don’t know is that the beast is loose—and it has found a new host.  Soon the bloodshed will begin.

 

Jewel (2009)

 

While watching his own children play at the park, Jason Hylden remembers back to a dark time in his life when events took place that were so disturbing, so brutal, that he has never brought them up to anybody.  He decides then and there that he is going to tell a story—Jewel’s story.

 

Within the confines of a small impoverished town’s oak groves and rural setting, a sinister urban climate is spreading like a disease.  The gang of kids that Jason runs with is beginning to watch the walls of innocence shatter and tumble to the ground around them.  The once innocuous gang is now escalating into violence, lustful obsession, and drugs—its leader, Harvey, slipping off the edge into madness.  Jason, the son of a prominent psychotherapist, was oblivious to it all—then along came Jewel Wylander.  Jewel, sullen and withdrawn, is new to the school.  She doesn’t have many friends, but worst of all, Jewel is showing up with bruises and cuts on her arms.  Jewel has a secret, a dark secret.  But when Jason discovers that his own mother is Jewel’s therapist, he begins to suspect that confidentiality and self-disclosure, supposed client privileges, may actually be masking the truth.  Despite her afflictions and the gang’s vehement opposition to their budding relationship, Jason quickly falls in love with Jewel.  As their relationship blooms, Jason finds himself the last person standing between Jewel and someone, or something, which seems hell-bent on her destruction.  In the end, it is his own fears he must overcome before Jason has a ghost of a chance of delivering Jewel from the darkness that plagues her. 

 

 

Spirit Asylum or alternate title Vessel of the Diablo Si

 

During the dead cold of the winter of 1958, in a rural Minnesota town, the last patient of a rapidly deteriorating tuberculosis asylum knows it’s the end, the end of a life cut short.  Clara Berg, in her last flickering moments, quickly manages to scrawl a faint picture of a vision she witnesses with her final breath.  Is the message the ravings of a dying woman or her last coherent thought in this world?  Fifty-two years later, the world is about to find out.

 

The year is 2010 and the Clayborn’s have just finished remodeling a portion of the old asylum into their dream home, when they are catapulted into a nightmare.  After awakening in the middle of the night with a Vodoun symbol scratched into her belly, Mrs. Clayborn decides to go against her husband’s wishes and calls in a priest to perform an exorcism.  When the priest is found murdered, the Vatican sends in their own team to the desecrated home.  Only it’s not the home that has caused the desecration—it’s what hides in the unfinished bowels.  The very survival of everyone involved will depend on the wits and expertise of the Vatican’s Eli Ross and a highly deductive sleuth from Boston, Racine Brennon.  Together, with a highly flammable supporting cast, Eli and Racine battle against an unfathomable evil.  While avoiding their own demise, they must collect clues inside the old asylum and solve a horrific mystery before there is no one left to save.

 

Broken Mirror

 

Eli Ross expected the internet dating scene to be a bit of an adventure, but he gets more than he bargained for when he meets the spiritually sensitive Dana Sullivan and the experience catapults them both into a shadowy world of conspiracy theories and the paranormal, where the lines of truth and deception blur together.

 

When Dana sees her deceased mother in the mirror it is more than an old cliché; it’s either a spiritual manifestation or a figment of a still grieving girl’s imagination.  Eli, a licensed counselor, thinks mental illness may play a bigger part, but others think differently.  Mental illness aside, the mirror is certainly more than it seems and hurls Eli and Dana into the vortex of a spiritual storm.  An evil power is threatening to let loose a secret technology which has remained hidden and dormant for over sixty years; a technology that some think should remain that way.  The ensuing epic chess match of good vs. evil would rip the veil from an age’s old conspiracy theory thought dead and buried forever. Behind the scenes two powerful dimensions are about to come crashing together with one power wanting to bury the truth eternally and the other wanting to exploit it.  The question is:  with mankind teetering on the edge of overstepping its bounds, how can a broken mirror determine where deception ends and the truth begins?

 

No Innocent Victim (coming soon)

 

Grimpen Kane, severely abused as a child, is many things: an abuser, a genius, and a serial killer who pledges his allegiance to the highest bidder.  His current employer is offering more than money for payment and they don’t even know it.  They want to bring the world to its knees and broker the deal for a one world religion, but Grimpen Kane has other plans altogether.  Has the desire for absolute power driven him to the brink of insanity or is Hell waiting on Grimpen Kane?

 

One by one, the third ranking official in each of the world’s four major religions are being, not only cruelly murdered, but tortured to the point of martyrdom by an indiscriminate killer.  As each murder is discovered, evidence points straight to the heart of an already delicate balance in the world’s religious structure.  In the political aftermath of these heinous murders, the world’s superpowers blame each other and are thrust towards the brink of all out Armageddon.  Out of the chaos, one demented man plans to achieve the unthinkable.  Bravely, only Eli Ross and his team of Vatican warriors stand between Hell’s monster and a world that is holding its breath – hoping to wake in the morning.  One way or the other, the world will find the truth - that on earth, there is no innocent victim.

 

 

And next In My Creative Queue:

 

Zealot (the novel)

 

The Gullys

 

Random Act of Violence

 

When Darkness Walks

 

America Rising
 

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