Chapter 1: The Vultures of Route 66 The heat in Arizona doesn’t just burn; it presses down on you, a physical weight…
PART 1: THE INVISIBLE WOMAN Chapter 1: The Dead Man’s Switch The radio crackles with the sound of a man dying. Then, static.…
Chapter 1: The Ghost of Canyon Road Providence Springs, Montana, hadn’t changed much in the ten years since I chose it for…
The mountain didn’t make a sound when it happened. There was no grand echo to mark the moment, no sympathetic rumble from the…
Chapter 1: The Easy Mark The rumble started as a vibration in the concrete floor before it became a sound. Ray Henderson didn’t…
The wind that came off the Atlantic that morning had teeth. It wasn’t a breeze; it was a hard, scouring force that snapped…
Part 1 Chapter 1: The Cutting Edge of Arrogance The air in The Rusty Anchor was thick, heavy, and smelled like…
Chapter 1: The Invisible Girl I stepped through the chain-link gates of Fort Braxton, Silverton County, looking exactly like what I intended…
PART 1: THE PURIFICATION Chapter 1: The Weight of the Placard The year is 1473 Before Christ. The location is the west bank…
THE GHOST IN THE FRONT ROW PART 1 The silence of a suburban apartment at 0500 hours is heavier than the silence of…