Book Preview “They can’t get to us, can they?” Emerson asked, her eyes inquisitive, the tone in her voice one of curiosity, with perhaps the slightest hint of fear. I met my daughter’s eyes in silence, the expression on my face a mirror of hers. I turned back to the TV, ensuring what I was … Read more
Book Preview The alley was only a block away now and Danielle kept her pace steady, worried that a change of speed in either direction might trigger an alert. She couldn’t afford that here, not this close to home. It was an alley bar about the size of boxing ring. Raise the Flagon. The kind … Read more
Book Preview “Hi Sharon. It’s me. It’s Dominic.” The thing that used to be Sharon shows no glint of recognition, and I wonder if it can hear me at all. Her external ears are gone, and as she approaches, bringing me as close to the crabs as I’ve been since the event happened a couple … Read more
Book Preview The snow fell everywhere now. And the crabs kept coming. For a while, before the grid failed and the batteries in the radio went dead, rumors hovered around that the blizzards had yet to reach a few of the tiny islands off the coast of South America, and that due to the isolation … Read more
Book Preview “Oh baby, I’m not ready to leave on Sunday.” Lauren Cashwell stared ruefully at her Long Island iced tea, swirling it into a wide vortex as she swayed slowly on her hammock, one leg hanging over the edge, the toes of her right shoe clipping the perfectly shaped grass of the Breakaway Resort … Read more
Book Preview “It’s this way, Samuel, follow me.” Nootau held his hand above his shoulder and waved two fingers forward, all the while gliding effortlessly along the dirt path toward the sound. Despite the fading light, he dodged the tall loblolly pines and avoided the prickly pear shrubs with the grace of a mustang. Samuel … Read more
Book Preview One morning during his daily run to the beach, Danny Lynch witnesses the strangest and most incredible thing he’s ever seen. A dark, man-like figure emerges from the ocean, stands for just a few moments on the beach, and then retreats back to the surf. Danny’s perspective on the world changes in an … Read more
Book Preview She’d never gotten used to the taste. Even with the life and strength that teemed in every molecule, the russet fluid always went down heavy and crude. Like swallowing a fistful of thin mud that had been lifted from the bottom of a river. There was a time in the early years of … Read more
Book Preview S he’d never gotten used to the taste. Even with the life and strength that teemed in every molecule, the russet fluid always went down heavy and crude. Like swallowing a fistful of thin mud that had been lifted from the bottom of a river. There was a time in the early years … Read more
Book Preview OTHER BOOKS BY CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN Gretel (Gretel Book One) Marlene’s Revenge (Gretel Book Two) Hansel (Gretel Book Three) Anika Rising (Gretel Book Four) They Came with the Snow (They Came with the Snow Book One) The Melting (They Came with the Snow Book Two) The Sighting (The Sighting Book One) The Origin (The … Read more
Book Preview FROM THE BOTTOM OF a lake, deep in the Back Country, death takes a turn. Within a day of being struck down by Hansel, Anika has risen. The cruel, addictive infection of Marlene’s poison has protected Anika from the finality of death. But the resurrection is not without a price. She has a … Read more