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The Five Watchers by J. Cameron McClain
The Five Watchers centers around events occurring in a secluded valley in north-central Pennsylvania called Shady Glen.
The people who have lived in the valley over the centuries have unwittingly helped in the formation of a psychic entity, an amalgam of potent psychic residue and a number of remnant human consciousnesses of those who are connected with the area, immersed in evil thoughts, powerful enough to bend the will of the weak-minded, and strong enough to kill.
After lying uninhabited for more than 30 years and largely faded from media notoriety, Shady Glen is chosen by a New York City-based TV production company for the latest episode of their new paranormal-focused reality TV series. In each show a group of five volunteer investigators and two psychics are brought together to investigate a haunted location. Over the course of a weekend, the investigators are filmed as they try to verify claims of paranormal activity in the chosen area.
What the investigators and psychics don't know is that the production company has secretly sent in a second crew to scare them. And what they are all about to find out is that the evil is real, and is awakening.
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Redemption by R.K. Ryals
SUMMARY:
A fateful car accident, a strange Abbey ruled by an even stranger Abbess, an insane Demon, a world where right and wrong becomes dangerously twisted, and a confident, rebellious teenager . . . .
Dayton Blainey is a foul-mouthed, grief-stricken young woman forced to live with a religiously eccentric aunt who favors her moral older sister. But when Dayton's life becomes intertwined with a dangerous stranger, she suddenly finds herself at the center of a war fought since the beginning of time.
Trapped between what she believes is right, and a forbidden attraction, Dayton must come to terms with betrayal and her surprising lineage to stop a war before it even begins.
Seven-X by Mike Wech
SEVEN-X is the first book in the SEVEN-X TRILOGY surrounding Los Angeles Times Investigative Reporter Eddie Hansen, who gets a tip on a missing death row prisoner being held at a Behavioral Health Center in a remote location outside the small town of Dell City, Texas.
With an opportunity to break the story, Eddie voluntarily commits himself into the asylum in hopes of finding Annette Dobson, "The SIDS Killer." She is rumored to have had her execution faked so she could be shipped to the asylum, have an exorcism and give birth to the child the world thinks is dead.
Eddie's journals, video diary and recordings leave a trail of breadcrumbs into experimental procedures conducted on patients without their consent. As he dives deeper into his investigation, Eddie is forced to confront his own demons, as an unwilling participant in the asylum's controversial rehabilitation procedures.
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Mythical: Blood and Stone by C.E. Martin (http://facebook.com/C.E.Martin.1039)
SUMMARY:
(Book 3 in the Mythical Series)
Imprisoned at Alcatraz for over forty years, Dr. Laura Olson dreamed of two things: freedom and meeting back up with the man who spared her life and gave her a chance to serve her country from behind bars. All that changes when a shapeshifter comes to the Rock, ripping out and eating the hearts of the inmates to steal their memories and paranormal abilities. The shapeshifter sweeps through the prison and finally attacks Dr. Olson, stealing her heart and her undead powers before fleeing the country.
When the shapeshifter declares himself to be the second coming of the Mayan blood god Kukulcan to the people of the Yucatan, America's anti-supernatural forces spring into action, recruiting Dr. Olson and giving her a chance for payback.
The vampire now must work with a team of living stone soldiers, a teenager who can freeze objects with her mind and the super soldier who captured her long ago. Can the undead Doctor keep her new team alive long enough to get revenge, or will she succumb to her blood thirst and join with the new Kukulcan?
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Precipice The Beginning by Kevin J. Howard
I would like to nominate Precipice: The Beginning. It's an amazing read, and something I would like to chat about with other members.
Book One in the Precipice Trilogy
The End is only the Beginning....
It wasn't the first time Lieutenant Travis Daniels had been far from his wife and son. Leading an elite team on countless missions, dodging death at every turn--it was what he was trained to do. And returning to his family was always his driving force... but this time might be different. Imprisoned for an unsanctioned intrusion into a hot zone, Travis and his elite team took a deal to assist in the colonization of Mars to evade the death penalty. While stationed there, Travis' only source of sanity were the brief video conversations he was allowed with his family. When the last transmission received showed choppy images of the city in darkness and blurs of humanoid creatures running through the streets, Travis and his team must decide to either stay on Mars or find a way back to his family--unknowing of the hell that Earth has become.
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Finding Poe by Leigh M. Lane
"Atmospheric, lush, and lyrical, Leigh M. Lane's Finding Poe is a haunting Gothic novel which will delight anyone familiar with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as anyone who enjoys an evocative and classic tale of terror." -horror/mystery author Dana Fredsti.
When reality and fiction collide, there's no telling what horrors might ensue.
In the wake of her husband's haunted death, Karina must sift through the cryptic clues left behind in order to solve the mystery behind his suicide--all of which point back to the elusive man and author, Edgar Allan Poe.
Karina soon finds that reality, dream, and nightmare have become fused into one as she journeys from a haunted lighthouse in New England to Baltimore, where the only man who might know the answers to her many questions resides.
But will she find her answers before insanity rips her grip on reality for good? Might a man she's never met hold the only key to a truth more shocking than even she could have imagined?
Finding Poe is currently a 2013 EPIC Awards finalist in horror.
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Life After written by Mercedes Ludill
People are changing into werewolves all over the country. Men, women, and children are being killed. The human population of the United States is plummeting.
Randi and surviving members of her family escape the city and take refuge in the deserted grasslands. They think they’ll be safe from the horrors destroying civilization until it comes knocking on their front door.
Many will die in the now apocalyptic United States. Many will be changed forever into something which shouldn’t exist. Love, death, and new life will be found in the wasteland.
This is the story of Randi and her family’s everyday struggles. Beware surviving in this new world can be very dangerous and bloody.
Apocalypse Z: Uncommon Ground by G.E. Swanson
A group of young adults have been living a zombie free existence for almost a year in a cabin and deserted logging camp located high in the mountains of Washington. The winter was extremely harsh and a lot more than what they expected. Supplies run low and the cabin is in desperate need of repairs before the next winter. As the weather warms they go back out into the zombie infested world to get what they need. They quickly discover that the zombies are not rotting away or falling apart as they had hoped.
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I nominate for the second time, HUMAN NO LONGER by Kathryn Meyer Griffith.Summary:
Jenny and Jeff Sanders become victims of a bizarre crime; leaving Jeff dead and Jenny in a temporary coma. She returns to her children. With Jeff’s death she must move back to her childhood home, a haunted farmhouse, in Summer Haven, Florida, where once they destroyed a family of vampires.
Jenny has no appetite. She’s edgy. Her eyes hurt. She thinks it could be trauma or grief. Until one night she can’t resist the night woods or the overpowering urge to drink warm animals’ blood–and accepts the truth. Her attackers were vampires.
Now she’s becoming what she once reviled. She can’t abandon her children but must find a way to live in the human world. At night she hunts, in the day hides what she’s becoming and attempts to fit in.
Then townspeople begin dying. Like years before. With her blackouts, she fears she may be the killer, or is it her vampire attackers? For they've found her and demand she joins them–or her family will die. She resists until they kidnap her children. Then she has to find a way to outwit and ultimately destroy them. ***
Kathryn Meyer Griffith
In The Devil's Own WordsI would like to nominate: In the Devil's Own Words.
Moving house has become a way of life for fifteen year old Isobel Miller; her father is an Army Major, her mother, a middle aged, pregnant, chain smoking alcoholic! but the move to the village of Langham could be the straw that broke the camels back! to the truculent teenager it might as well have been to 'Timbuktu'. Isobel is resentful of the baby and angry with her mother for dragging her away from civilisation to live in a village which has no street lighting let alone any decent shops.
The only light in her miserable existence, her grandfather, story-teller elite, her saviour. And when one of his macabre tales is mentioned in the local paper Isobel is drawn into the depths of evil and devil worship. Her world, and that of everyone around her turns upside down.
The cause, a mysterious book, an omen, which once opened and read starts a cataclysmic chain of events and their lives are filled with tragedy and disaster. Salvation comes in the guise of three teenagers-Peter, Oswald and Ariel and the four form an alliance. A bond so strong nothing, can tear apart-nothing except maybe the devil himself...!
Between by Clarissa Johal How far would you go to redeem yourself?
As a young girl, Lucinda was able to see spirits, a gift that didn't come without its problems. Now, a dedicated young veterinarian, she is committed to the idea that every life can be saved.
After a devastating accident, Lucinda tries to escape her past by moving to a small town. There, she meets a newcomer and feels an immediate connection with him. But there is another mysterious stranger to the small town, one that stirs within her a mixture of unease and desire.
As Lucinda is drawn into a bitter tug-a-war from the forces around her, she is likewise pulled into a dangerous twist of past and present events. Forced to make difficult choices, she finds that the two men are locked in not only a battle for her life...but a battle for their salvation.
Eden by David HolleyAfter enduring a horrific plane crash, a small group of survivors must work together in order to withstand the harshest conditions imaginable in the remote wilderness of New Zealand’s South Island.
The year is 2022, and their epic journey, fraught with danger and mystery, will alter the course of human history forever.
Led by charismatic Special Forces captain Noah Lockheart and his wife Evelyn, an accomplished scientist, the band of weary travelers must battle the elements along with their fears, as they race toward civilization, and their hope for rescue.
Among the survivors is Mia Sinclair, an extraordinary girl who can glimpse the future. Through their trials, the Lockhearts begin to uncover the girl’s ability in spite of her best efforts to keep it hidden. But even as Mia proves to be an invaluable ally, her gift comes at an unbearable cost.
Each step brings them closer to salvation– and to unraveling the mystery of their abandonment. But just when they think they are saved, they realize that they have never been farther from home.
The Epitaph of Jonas Barloff by Calvin Dean
In 1863, Jonas Barloff survived a fatal gunshot wound at Gettysburg. Upon his return to Mississippi, heinous crimes ensued - and ceased with his death in 1913.
It's 2013. The grisly crimes are back and so is a man claiming to be Jonas Barloff.
Meanwhile, a suspicious head-on collision claims the life of high school senior, Daniel Townsend. A chance discovery pinpoints Daniel at a crumbling antebellum home – the old Jonas Barloff estate.
The house looks uninhabitable. Haunted. Evil.
Daniel’s classmates, Marc Livingston and Angela Chadwell, begin to pry. While inspecting the Barloff family cemetery, Marc notices a towering grave marker with a perplexing epitaph. What does the epitaph mean, and who is the old man claiming to be Jonas Barloff?
Strange apparitions. Mysterious phantoms. Bloodcurdling séances. Will any of these pieces of the puzzle help Marc and Angela lay the mystery to rest once and for all? Oh, no! Not hardly! Not until they come face-to-face with an evil no one could possibly imagine. Even if they live to tell the story, no one will believe them. Not in a million years.
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Bound By Blood - Volume 1 by Shane_K_P_O_Neill
The Dracula Chronicles is the brilliant and terrifying new concept of Dracula. It is an epic journey through the ages where the forces of Light and Darkness struggle for supremacy until the Second Great War, as foretold in the Book of Revelations. This bitter feud began after the creation of mankind. Lucifer’s jealousy leads to the First Great War of the angels. Hundreds of thousands of years on the feud simmers beneath the surface. It plots the course of history as we know it today. Both sides manipulate the major players through the centuries to seek an advantage over the other. On a cold night in December 1431 in Sighisoara an old gypsy woman delivers a prophecy to the great Vlad Dracul. She tells him he is about to sire two sons, one an angel and the other a devil. He returns to his fortress just as his wife bears him a son, whom he names Vlad. In the very same moment across the country on the border between Transylvania and Hungary a gypsy girl gives birth to another son, Andrei. The die is cast. The twin souls are born. The young Vlad Dracula becomes the instrument of the forces of Darkness. To balance this, the baby Andrei is blessed by the angels and bestowed with awesome powers.These chronicles are their story.
As his moment of death looms Dracula suffers the ultimate betrayal. The champion of the Catholic faith in Eastern Europe realises it is Lucifer who is coming to claim him. However, Lucifer does not want his soul. Instead he bites into Dracula's neck and then offers his own blood to drink. Dracula suffers his mortal death. But he re-awakens. Immortalised with Lucifer's blood coursing through his veins, the two are bound by blood for eternity. But Lucifer has groomed him for this day. He lays out the task before him. Dracula is to destroy the institution of that which he has championed for so long. By bringing down the Catholic Church he can undo the Crucifixion and turn man against God once more. If he succeeds then Lucifer will ascend again to Heaven and signal the end for all mankind.
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Bound By Blood: Volume 1 (Bound By Blood, #1) (other topics)The Epitaph of Jonas Barloff (other topics)
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