Books

Grace Pritchard is no longer what she was.

The wood grain has been spreading across her skin for four years — the mark of someone who has been touched by something ancient and survived it, who has gone from infected to transformed, from victim to something the cursed objects recognize and choose not to fight. She can feel them from miles away...

The Tree is no longer just waiting. It is hunting.

Grace Pritchard thought she was the hunter, collecting the forty-three cursed objects carved from the Confession Tree to save her soul and the world. She was wrong. A new enemy has risen from the roots—a hooded figure made of cursed wood and pure malevolence, designed for one purpose: to stop the...

HIDDEN ROOTS

The hunt continues. The contamination spreads. And Grace Pritchard is running out of time.

Six months after burying the first cursed objects from the Confession Tree, Grace has learned three things: Malcolm’s protective methods only slow the inevitable. The contamination spreading through her body will never stop. And she can’t do...

ONCE A MARINE, ALWAYS A MARINE: A Memoir of Service and Survival
At sixteen, he struggled to survive above a friend’s garage on his own. By seventeen, he joined the Marine Corps in San Diego, seeking discipline and purpose absent from his youth. Boot camp in 1976 was brutal, marked by abuse and loss, but he endured and became a Marine.

His service...

THE CONFESSION TREE

The tree remembered every sin. Then they cut it down.

For three centuries, the Confession Tree stood in the Appalachian mountains—an ancient execution oak where the guilty were hanged and their sins absorbed into the wood itself. 256 souls. 256 confessions carved into the grain.

Grace Pritchard knows this because her twin...

THE FIELD

Some ground should never be broken.

Four feet down, Evan Wallace's shovel strikes something that shouldn't exist.

Not rock or the usual Carolina clay.

A barrier. Engineered. Deliberate. Sealed by people who knew that forgetting wasn't weakness—it was survival.

Richard Moore doesn't care. The funeral home is failing. The cemetery is full....

SALT MOTHER

The island shouldn’t be warm.

Marine biologist Eliza Holt returns to Brackish Key to settle her mother’s estate. The barrier island should be quiet—tourists gone, storm season over.

Instead, the sand holds heat overnight. The tide moves wrong. Organisms wash ashore in stages of impossible change—tissues dissolving and rebuilding at...

THE BLACK BLOOM

The past always corrects itself.

When Mara Rourke returns to Briar Hollow to assess abandoned buildings, she expects silence. The Appalachian mining town is half-gone—boarded houses, sealed shafts, and a collapse that killed her father twenty years ago.

But the ground is warmer than it should be.

Town clerk Mae Kessler opens files...

HOLLOW GROUND

The rain fed the earth. Now the earth is hungry.

After weeks of relentless Delta rain, Clara Whitlow’s dog vanishes into the flooded soil behind her farmhouse.

Not taken. Dissolved.

And when the ground finally stops moving, it begins to breathe.

What rises beneath Gethsemane Parish isn’t a predator—it’s something worse. A vast neural...