Special Agent Cole Nightshade has learned how to use the telepathic abilities that have protected him since childhood to apprehend the most brutal of criminals. His latest case involves a serial killer who’s been christened the Vampire of Charlottesville thanks to a unique MO: biting the necks of victims before murdering them and taking body parts as trophies. While investigating one of the crime scenes, Cole is confronted with the vision of an angry, disheveled young man who doesn’t want him to get too close to the truth. David Fairchild is a freshman at the University of Virginia. Smart, likable, and good looking, he’s the sort who seems destined to achieve great things. But David has a history of disturbing incidents, kept hidden by his well-to-do family, that are precipitated by a man who speaks to him in his mind. As the investigation heats up, Cole and David’s paths are set on a collision course. Now Cole must put the pieces together before David carries out the will of his secret friend—and the Vampire of Charlottesville claims another victim.

When Special Agent Cole Nightshade wakes up strapped to a bed in an unfamiliar room, he can’t imagine who his captors are or what they want with him. Then he meets his fellow abductees—kids with psychic abilities that are beneficial to military and intelligence operations. The researchers behind the covert federal program that took them have conscripted Cole, who possesses formidable abilities of his own, to facilitate their instruction. Now Cole must protect his charges from their handlers while finding a way for all of them to escape. But they have more to worry about than the humans who’ve imprisoned them. Determined to exploit any resource that might give US military an advantage in battle, the researchers have attracted the attention of monstrous beings who don’t take kindly to the prospect of being used. And the monsters don’t know the perpetrators from the victims.

While in Vietnam, Cole Nightshade encounters an otherworldly presence conceived by the horrors of war. Wounded in action, he returns home only to do battle with a monster in human form. The third book in the Nightshade Chronicles series.

Things are looking up for twelve-year-old Cole Nightshade. After surviving a deranged nurse’s attack in Saint Edwards Mental Asylum, he’s discovered family he never knew existed. Cole’s cousin saves him from another potentially disastrous foster-care placement by inviting him to stay with her and her young son in the small town of New River. His living situation settled at last, Cole hopes he can put his traumatic past behind him. But the promise of a peaceful existence is shattered almost immediately. Lured by the possibility of learning about his father, a man who’s been absent his entire life, Cole is recruited for a late-night grave-robbing episode. The opening of the grave unleashes something powerful, angry, and not quite human. Now this creature stalks New River to avenge the death of its most notorious citizen: Cole’s dad. Can Cole save the town—and himself—from a nightmare beyond imagining?

Before she died, Cole Nightshade’s grandmother taught him how to keep his demons from coming out of their hiding places and wreaking havoc. But none of Nana’s lessons have prepared him for Saint Edwards Mental Asylum, where he’s landed after a foster-care placement gone wrong. Saint Edwards has a history of abuse and death that makes itself known to Cole in alarming ways. Walls containing the spirits of prior inmates scream in agony. Young women who once ran from monsters, or from their own pain, leap to their deaths again and again. The good news: Cole’s new friends on the pediatric ward believe him when he tells them what he sees. The bad news: they have a bigger problem than ghosts. For years, a creature known as the Creeper has been preying on kids in the asylum. Rumor has it that if you catch a glimpse of him, you die. And someone—or something—has been stalking Cole since his first night at Saint Edwards.

Doctoral student Eric Hansen is in the second year of his counseling psychology program. His first psychotherapy client for the year is thirteen-year old Greg. The boy has been seeing apparitions of children, presumably long dead, roaming outside his bedroom window at his father’s house. For Eric, this case covers disturbing ground. Just a year earlier, a freshman at the university named Will appeared at the clinic and reported similar harrowing images, only to discontinue his therapy after one session and never return. The haunting of both Greg and Will jolt Eric’s recollection of his own traumatic past and he is drawn into a whirlpool of unspeakable horror well beyond the scientific realm of psychology. Told within the context of multiple therapy sessions, Dead Works is a horror novella in which a young doctoral student must help a boy make sense of ghostly and terrifying visions while simultaneously struggling against a world where acts of brutal evil threaten to destroy them both.

When fourteen year old Ryan Perry moves to his grandmother’s coastal home in South Carolina, he is haunted by a malevolent entity masquerading as his double – a specter of ancient evil intent on destroying Ryan. As the hauntings become dangerous, Ryan encounters an additional threat: two menacing feral boys and their caretaker somehow connected to this other twin. Ryan soon realizes that in order to save himself and his family, he must confront the all-to-real presence of an unimaginable evil. Birth Offering is a horror novel about a boy thrust into a living nightmare, and the cumulative psychological impact of evil actions by multiple past generations.

On an ordinary night in a quiet, upper-middle-class neighborhood, eighth-grade classmates Chloe Danvers and Spencer Genovese sneak out of their homes to investigate a weird clicking noise. They watch as a shadowy figure slinks through their street, dashes around a house, and disappears. The next morning, they learn that the Hoffman family has been murdered. In their efforts to find out what happened, Chloe and Spencer discover that no one else can see or hear the malevolent being they glimpsed. Only a shared medical condition enables them to sense its presence. Their illness provides a measure of protection from the creature, but not for long. It becomes aware of them and begins taunting them in a series of disturbing events. Now they must determine its weakness … and stop it before it goes after its next victims.

Thirteen-year-old Griffin Rinaldi seems like a normal kid. He plays basketball at the Y and he’s just learning to talk to girls. But Griffin doesn’t feel normal. He’s been diagnosed with Depersonalization Disorder—he feels disconnected from his body and at times he doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. And it seems to be getting worse. Following the brutal death of his abusive father, Griffin is haunted by a red-haired kid only he can see and who wants him to do things he doesn’t understand. Griffin's only sources of support are his grandfather, Soren - a regional author of Outer Banks ghost stories - and his same-aged cousin, Tanner, a boy coping with his own troubled life. When a rare blizzard strikes the Outer Banks, Griffin recognizes the red-haired boy as a vengeful specter from Soren's tales. To make matters worse, his well-meaning aunt has convinced his mother he’s under some sort of spiritual attack. Unsure if the mysterious boy is a symptom of his disorder or an entity with evil intent, Griffin finds himself in a struggle to save his life, his sanity and maybe his very soul.