My Rating “Born Again” Wintersgate Manor – 2012. Baron Winters and his leopard Merlin stand watch over the rescued Jim Duffy and Mia as they recover from the Washington, D.C., mansion fire earlier that evening. The creatures known as the Gatherers had intended to eliminate Mia and her Generation Two Darkling baby, but Jim’s unexpected
My Rating “The Evolution” Smoke from Senator Greene’s estate can be seen for miles across Washington, D.C. The Gatherers have torched the mansion in a desperate attempt to destroy evidence of their secret society—and eliminate every loose end still breathing inside the complex. Sergeant Jim Duffy Jr. is chief among them. Jim lies unconscious somewhere
My Rating “The Dormants” London, England – 1648. Baron Winters and Merlin the leopard lie dying on the cold floor of a cellar prison once occupied by the witch Kassandra Fey. Somehow, the Gatherers have struck a bargain with the homicidal witch, offering Kassandra her freedom in exchange for her cooperation. Apparently, even the Gatherers
My Rating “The Dying” Professor Donovan Caine lies dying in a hospital bed. Something isn’t right. Through a chemotherapy-induced haze, Donovan remembers being admitted to Washington, D.C. General Hospital, but his surroundings have suddenly changed. The sterile walls, medical equipment, and hospital staff are gone. His eyes slowly adjust to the dimly lit room. Then
My Rating “The Nurses” Sergeant Jim Duffy and Zoe Davis arrive at the home of Jim Duffy Sr. to search through a lifetime of documents concerning missing children. The retired FBI agent has spent decades collecting reports, photographs, police records, and newspaper clippings involving unexplained abductions stretching back more than seventy years. But the mystery
My Rating “The Shadows” “The Gatherers” Mount Vernon, Virginia, 1799. A small gathering of family members has come together to say goodbye to former President George Washington. Dr. James Craik arrived earlier that morning with a diagnosis that Martha Washington simply refuses to accept. George had complained of a cold, yes, but he had seemed
My Rating “The Gatherers” Sergeant Jim Duffy Jr. of the Hilton Head Island Police Department has just arrived at the marina in response to a 911 dispatch call when his squad car headlights illuminate something horrifying in the surf. A man is attempting to drown a young woman. The small South Carolina community has certainly
My Rating “A Tale of Temporary Farewells” Baron Winters sits peacefully in a majestic field somewhere within a prehistoric landscape. He has some idea how he arrived at this strange location, but the reason for his journey remains a mystery. Extinct animals wander freely across the countryside as creatures from different periods of history coexist
My Rating “The Eleventh Man – Part 03 of 03” Zadok Grimm, a fourteenth-century shaman, races up the stairwell of a twenty-first-century high-rise with his familiar, Whisp, close behind. Floor after floor disappears beneath them as the two desperately climb toward the rooftop. They may already be too late. Above them, multimillionaire tech genius Norman
My Rating “The Eleventh Man – Part 02 of 03” The entity must find a new host. The Twelfth Man. And time is running out. Baron Winters and his mysterious fourteenth-century shaman must locate someone capable of accepting the supernatural burden before the entity consumes its current host. Unfortunately, the man strapped helplessly into the
