novels
Current list of projects I'm working on, along with a brief synopsis.
(bear in mind that those not marked "Published" are still being revised, so some things may change drastically before the final release)
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When Norman Chatter awakens in a mysterious hall suspended between life and death, he remembers nothing—not even who he is. Guided by the enigmatic Eludor, he is invited to step through nine mystical doors, each leading into the life of someone shaped by a different religion, philosophy, or worldview.
From Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Sikhism, and Humanism, Norman experiences the hopes, struggles, and beliefs of others from the inside, discovering that every path offers its own wisdom about purpose, compassion, and what it means to live well.
But the greatest revelation awaits behind the final door, where a surprising truth forces Norman to reconsider everything he thought he knew about life, death, and himself.
The Eight Lives of Norman Chatter is a thought-provoking spiritual journey that invites readers to explore humanity's shared search for meaning while reminding us that understanding begins by seeing the world through another's eyes.
THE LUMINAL NATURAE OF BOUNDLESS LOVE
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When watercolor artist Liam begins experiencing impossible sensations—music with no source, colors bleeding into reality, and phantom scents that exist only in his mind—he fears he is losing his grip on reality. Everything changes when the mysterious faerie woman from his latest painting steps off the canvas and into his life. Calling herself Watermark, she is a living masterpiece born of his imagination, and the two fall into a passionate love that defies the boundaries between art and reality. But Watermark's existence in the physical world comes at a devastating cost, her body slowly fading like drying paint with every passing day.
As Liam's artistic fame reaches unprecedented heights, he must choose between a future of worldly success or abandoning everything he has ever known for a chance to spend eternity with the woman he created. Watermark is a lyrical blend of magical realism, fantasy, and romance that explores the power of creativity, the sacrifices love demands, and the thin line between the worlds we imagine and the ones we inhabit.
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When the last paper mill in Hartman Hollow, Tennessee, closes its doors, the town begins to disappear—not with a bang, but through quiet neglect and fading memories. While sorting decades of forgotten municipal records, widowed clerk Eleanor Pike uncovers evidence of a long-buried conspiracy surrounding the 1959 disappearance of a Black union organizer whose fight to unite workers threatened the town's most powerful men.
As Eleanor and local history teacher Caleb Turner unravel the truth, the story reaches back across generations to reveal how fear, prejudice, and compromise shaped the fate of an entire community. But exposing the past may cost the town the comforting myths it has lived by for decades.
Silent Echoes of Yesterday is a haunting Southern historical novel about memory, justice, and the quiet ways ordinary people become complicit in extraordinary wrongs, reminding us that history is not only what survives in the archives—but also what others worked so hard to erase.
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When reclusive archivist Alastair Wren is assigned to oversee a condemned library in the mysterious coastal city of Grayhaven, he discovers a building that refuses to obey the laws of architecture—or reality. Corridors rewrite themselves overnight, books alter their own text, and forgotten volumes appear bearing the voices of his dead wife, his mother, and even a future version of himself.
As Wren uncovers the library's terrifying secret—that it preserves the unresolved dead as living language and demands one life be rewritten for every memory restored—he is forced to confront an impossible choice: sacrifice himself to preserve humanity's fragile relationship with memory, or destroy the library and unleash every forgotten grief upon the world.
Library of the Unresolved Dead is an atmospheric work of literary gothic horror where haunted books replace haunted houses, language becomes the final resting place of the dead, and every act of reading carries the power to save, erase, or forever rewrite a soul.
Kingdom Red
The Orange Planet
Land of Yellow
Green Soil
Territory Blue
Indigo World
Violet Country
The Rainbow Makers
Prism is an epic eight-book fantasy series that transforms the journey of healing from trauma into an unforgettable adventure across worlds of living color.
When eight ordinary people reach the breaking point of abuse, violence, grief, or despair, they are drawn from Earth into extraordinary realms inspired by the colors of the rainbow, where their deepest wounds take physical form and must be faced with courage, compassion, and hope.
Each standalone novel follows a different survivor whose trials reveal that true healing comes not from forgetting the past, but from learning to live beyond it.
Blending imaginative fantasy with profound emotional truth, Prism is a celebration of resilience, identity, and the transformative power of human connection.
For years, sixty-two-year-old widow Margery Whitcombe believed the ornate mirror hanging in her hallway was nothing more than an antique curiosity—until she accidentally discovers it is a window into another world.
When war erupts on the other side and a frightened young girl faces certain death, Margery does the unthinkable: she steps through the glass. Stranded in the fantastical realm of Evarne, where rival empires wage war with magic and ancient artifacts, she must rely not on youth or strength, but on the wisdom, resilience, and quiet determination earned over a lifetime.
As she fights to rescue the child and uncover a way home, Margery discovers that courage has no age—and that some adventures begin only after the world expects them to be over.
The Look Window is a heartwarming portal fantasy celebrating unlikely heroes, found family, and the extraordinary power of ordinary people to change worlds.
When a man looks back on his life, he sees only what he has failed to become—a person of courage, purpose, and impact. Haunted by the belief that he has wasted opportunities others never had, he compares his quiet existence to the extraordinary journeys of five individuals who transformed unimaginable suffering into meaningful change.
Through the stories of a domestic abuse survivor who becomes a champion for women’s safety, a former child soldier who fights to protect vulnerable children, an educator who breaks cycles of poverty, a refugee who reshapes the future of the planet, and a trafficking survivor who restores hope to others, he discovers that greatness is not born from hardship alone, but from the choice to act.
As their lives challenge his assumptions about worth, purpose, and responsibility, he begins to understand that compassion is not measured by the pain one has endured, but by the good one chooses to create.
Worthless is a powerful reflection on resilience, human potential, and the quiet moment when a person decides that witnessing the world’s suffering is no longer enough—they must become part of its healing.
her Is Lying
When Elena Marrow dies unexpectedly at forty-six, she leaves behind no explanation—only the memories of those who believed they knew her best.
Told through the intimate testimonies of her former husband, sister, lifelong friend, former student, and a neighbor, the novel reveals five profoundly different versions of the same woman: brilliant and distant, wounded and afraid, inspiring and flawed, compassionate and unknowable.
Each narrator offers an honest account, yet together their stories create a portrait that can never fully be reconciled. As they search for meaning in Elena’s life and death, they uncover not only the mysteries she left behind but also the ways their own love, grief, guilt, and longing shaped the person they remember.
Everyone Who Loved Her is Lying is a haunting exploration of identity, perception, and the fragile stories we create about the people we love, asking whether we ever truly know another person—or only the version of them we need to believe in.
Homeless and forgotten on the streets of Los Angeles, Saul survives one day at a time—until a vivid dream of buried treasure hidden near Lake Michigan convinces him he has found his life's purpose.
With little more than hope, he sets out across America, crossing deserts, mountains, and endless plains of grain. Along the way, he encounters strangers who challenge his understanding of destiny, learns to trust his intuition, and discovers that fear—not poverty—is the greatest obstacle to a meaningful life.
Sumach: The Walking Dream is an inspiring novel about purpose, courage, and the transformative power of following impossible dreams. Rich with unforgettable characters and the sweeping landscapes of America, it reminds us that life's greatest treasures are not found in places, but in the people we meet, the connections we forge, and the person we become along the way.
A man awakens in an unfamiliar room with only a name he cannot prove belongs to him. As dementia slowly dismantles the architecture of his mind, time fractures into a dreamlike mosaic where childhood, marriage, parenthood, and old age exist simultaneously.
Memories appear and disappear without warning, familiar faces lose their names, and the achievements that once defined him dissolve into shadows. Yet beneath the confusion, something remains—a feeling, a connection, a quiet awareness that cannot be erased.
As he searches through the fading fragments of his life, he confronts the deepest questions of existence: Are we defined by our memories, our experiences, our accomplishments, or something more fundamental?
When I Forget Myself is a profound and intimate meditation on identity, mortality, and consciousness, exploring the possibility that what makes us human is not what we remember, but the enduring spark of being present, loving, and connected even as everything else falls away.
In a world where Majick is controlled by a powerful elite who hoard its secrets and rule through fear, one man emerges to reveal that its true source belongs to everyone. Born from celestial energy and marked by an ancient prophecy, Jake Curren challenges the mage caste by teaching that Majick is not a privilege of bloodlines or power, but a gift awakened through love, compassion, and connection to the divine energy flowing through all things.
As his message spreads, he heals the sick, protects the vulnerable, and inspires a movement built on equality and hope—threatening the very foundations of those who have ruled for generations. But when betrayed by one of his closest followers and condemned by the Mage council, Jake chooses sacrifice over vengeance, proving that love is stronger than oppression and that true power comes from serving others.
When he miraculously returns from death, his teachings ignite a transformation that reshapes civilization forever.
Father is an epic fantasy tale of faith, revolution, and spiritual awakening, exploring what happens when a single voice challenges a world built on control and reminds humanity of the power it has always carried within.
(Trilogy):
Flickerfield
Aelmaris
Palimora
Reality is not as solid as it seems.
Across three extraordinary novels, this series explores the hidden architectures that shape existence—from the quantum foundations of matter in Flickerfield, to the landscapes of memory in Aelmaris, to the fragile consensus that holds civilizations together in Palimora.
Together, these novels form an ambitious philosophical epic that blends speculative fiction, literary fantasy, and science-inspired imagination into a sweeping meditation on consciousness, identity, and the nature of existence itself.
Beyond all three lies a final possibility: Perhaps reality has never been a thing we discover. Perhaps it is something we continually create.
When Thomas Aldridge was a child, he saw something no one else could, or should—the terrifying truth waiting beyond death. Years later, after witnessing the deaths of a fellow soldier, his beloved wife, and several others, the visions return with a terrifying intensity. Although dismissed by others as nothing more than the scars of trauma or PTSD, Thomas refuses to ignore the dreams of his dying daughter crossing into the dark abyss; he believes that his visions are warnings rather than nightmares or scars.
Desperate for answers, he seeks out Elijah Voss, a mysterious physician whose forbidden experiments promise to reveal the secrets of consciousness, death, and the afterlife. As Thomas ventures beyond the boundaries of human understanding, he discovers realms of existence where souls suffer, reality fractures, and the unknown may be far more horrifying than death itself.
After is a haunting exploration of grief, faith, and the ultimate questions of existence, asking whether humanity is truly prepared to uncover what awaits beyond the final breath.
After a night of reckless celebration, a man’s journey home takes a terrifying turn when a simple detour leads to a devastating crash, a broken phone, and a desperate search for help in the isolated countryside.
Injured and alone, he discovers a seemingly abandoned field hiding a nightmare beneath the earth—one that begins when he falls into a deep hole and is dragged into a vast underground labyrinth inhabited by creatures beyond imagination.
As he fights through tunnels of bones, ancient rituals, and unimaginable horrors, he struggles to determine whether he is trapped in reality, suffering a drug-induced hallucination, or experiencing a premonition of something waiting to happen.
Where the Earth Opens is a relentless descent into survival horror and psychological terror, where the line between nightmare and prophecy disappears, and the most frightening question is not whether the monsters are real, but whether he has already seen all that is coming.
Every night, Emma falls asleep only to awaken in terror—murdered by the same mysterious man whose irresistible charm draws her closer with each encounter.
As the dreams grow more vivid and the seduction more intense, Emma finds herself trapped in a deadly cycle where desire always ends in betrayal, violence, and death. But when her nightmares begin leaving physical marks on her body and spilling into her waking life, she seeks answers and discovers the truth: the man haunting her dreams is an ancient incubus feeding on her soul.
With the help of a spiritualist, Emma learns that survival requires more than escape—she must turn the dream world itself against her predator.
Die for Him is a dark supernatural thriller about fear, desire, and the power of reclaiming control over the monsters that haunt us.
A chronicle of the Eight
(collaboration)
Three thousand years ago, a powerful ancient, known only as Mother, vanished into an enchanted sleep, leaving behind bloodlines born from her ancient power and a prophecy that one day "the Chosen" would awaken her to save their kind.
But as the vampire families descend into conflict, several claim to possess the one destined to restore their lost progenitor—and each is willing to manipulate, betray, and destroy their rivals to prove it. The memory-controlling Memoroes, the telepathic Windwalkers, the sun-defying Lightbenders, and the unpredictable Shifters become the first four Families drawn into a deadly struggle for dominance, unaware that their greatest threat may not come from another family, but from the secrets buried within their own origins.
As alliances fracture and an ancient enemy exposes a devastating truth about the prophecy, the Families face the possibility of extinction.
House of Broken Night is a dark fantasy saga of immortal bloodlines, forgotten histories, and a war for survival where power is inherited, loyalty is fragile, and the greatest mystery is not who will awaken Mother—but what will happen when she finally rises.
Deep in the Appalachian foothills outside Laurel Ridge, Tennessee, there is a trail that appears on no map—but every year, people find it. They leave behind their belongings and walk alone into the wilderness, returning changed in ways no one can explain. Some emerge healed, compassionate, and whole; others return cold, fractured, or strangely empty; and some never come back at all.
When investigative journalist Mara Ellison arrives in the isolated town of Brackett Hollow to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon, she expects to find a human explanation for the legend. Instead, she discovers a force that cannot be studied from a distance.
When the Trail finally calls her, Mara must surrender a piece of herself to enter a shifting landscape where memories become places, regrets become living things, and identity itself is tested. As she journeys deeper into a realm built from the hidden corners of the human soul, she discovers that the Trail does not lead somewhere—it leads inward, stripping away every illusion until only the deepest truth remains.
What Comes Back is a haunting exploration of psychological and folk horror, asking the terrifying question: if everything that defines you is taken away, what part of yourself would survive—and would you recognize what returns?
Marcus Lane has built an extraordinary legal career on an impossible gift: he can read his clients' minds and knows the truth before a case ever reaches the courtroom. Representing only the innocent, he becomes a legendary defender of justice—until he meets Victor Crane, a defendant whose thoughts are completely hidden from him.
What begins as a mystery becomes a dangerous revelation: Victor is a telepath like Marcus, but he believes their abilities are not a responsibility, but a weapon. As Victor attempts to recruit Marcus into a secret society determined to reshape humanity through control and domination, Marcus is forced to confront the darkest possibilities of his own power.
Torn between the temptation of limitless influence and his commitment to justice, Marcus must battle not only a ruthless opponent, but the growing uncertainty of whether morality can survive when those with extraordinary abilities decide they are above it.
Arcanum is a gripping psychological thriller about power, ethics, and the struggle to remain human when you possess the ability to read everyone's thoughts.
The Boy Who Couldn't Dream is an epic supernatural fantasy about identity, destiny, and the battle between light and darkness within every soul.
Plagued by narcolepsy and unable to remember his dreams, Legion Platt has spent his life feeling disconnected from himself—until hypnosis uncovers a forgotten past that reveals he is the son of an angel and a fallen angel, born to stand at the center of an ancient war between Heaven and Hell. As long-buried memories awaken, Legion discovers that his missing dreams have been shielding him from demonic forces determined to destroy him before he embraces his true power.
Pursued across the boundaries of the mortal and celestial realms, he must confront the conflicting legacies of both Heaven and Hell and choose the man he is destined to become.
Blending thrilling supernatural adventure with profound spiritual questions, Legion is a powerful story of faith, redemption, and the discovery that true strength lies not in denying who we are but in surrendering every part of ourselves to a purpose greater than our own.
Nymph is an enchanting fantasy romance about love, loyalty, and the courage to choose one's own destiny.
When Prince Alex sets out on a perilous quest to save his dying father, his only hope lies beyond the borders of his kingdom in the mystical realm of the Nymphs, guided by the mysterious Kera—a young nymph hiding a dangerous secret.
Sent to lure the prince into a trap from which no human has ever returned, Kera finds her mission unraveling as she witnesses Alex's unwavering compassion and selfless devotion. Forced to choose between the people she has always known and the man she has come to love, Kera risks exile, betrayal, and the wrath of her own kind in a desperate race to deliver a cure before it is too late.
Filled with magic, perilous adventure, and a timeless romance, Nymph is a story of sacrifice, redemption, and the extraordinary power of love to bridge worlds once thought forever divided.
(memory becoming itself again)
Remembering Vel'naira-Sel is a literary speculative fantasy about memory, identity, and the fragile architecture of reality itself.
Eiran Vale, a journalist who believes language is the foundation that holds the world together, begins uncovering impossible fractures: names that vanish from history, records that rewrite themselves, and lives that are not forgotten but deliberately removed.
Across town, sculptor Elowen discovers that her creations are not inventions but fragments of something trying to return, carved from a truth she cannot remember.
When their paths converge, they realize their connection predates memory itself and that they may be the last remnants of a forgotten system where names, stories, and meaning shaped existence. As the boundaries between absence and reality begin to collapse, Eiran and Elowen must confront a force born from everything erased, silenced, and left unresolved.
A haunting meditation on love, language, and the persistence of identity.
(Triliogy):
Dimensional Interstice
Temporal Drift
The Convergence Engine
The Interstice Cycle is an epic science fiction journey through the boundaries of reality, time, and identity.
In Dimensional Interstice, scientist Galen accidentally tears open a doorway to other dimensions and must survive a series of alien worlds while inhabiting the bodies of diverse beings far unlike himself, racing against time to find his way home.
In Temporal Drift, physicist Elias Crane is cast outside the normal flow of time, where past, present, and future collide, forcing him to confront infinite possibilities and redefine the nature of existence itself.
In The Convergence Engine, Iriath C0N-IR discovers that his fractured identity is linked to the journeys of Galen and Elias, revealing a deeper truth about consciousness that spans countless realities.
The trilogy takes readers on a mind-bending exploration of dimensions, time, and the evolving consciousness of existence itself.
YOUNG ADULT
When thirteen-year-old Aeric witnesses a brutal murder aboard his sprawling space station, the killer escapes hidden behind a device that erases every identifying feature—leaving Aeric as the only witness no one believes.
Determined to uncover the truth, he and his resourceful group of friends launch a secret investigation that leads them through restricted corridors, hidden conspiracies, and dangers far beyond anything kids should face.
But when the murderer realizes they're closing in, the hunters become the hunted, forcing the young detectives into a desperate race to survive.
Blending fast-paced science fiction, mystery, and adventure, this thrilling coming-of-age novel celebrates courage, friendship, and the extraordinary things ordinary kids can accomplish when they refuse to give up.
(a Goonies inspired story)
YOUNG ADULT
When six Boy Scouts discover a dying alien deep in the woods, they inherit a mysterious silver device—and a mission no one else can complete.
Haunted by shared dreams revealing a distant world enslaved by a ruthless artificial intelligence, the friends realize that the alien's final hope now rests in their hands.
Armed with only their courage, ingenuity, and the skills they've learned around the campfire, they step through a portal to an alien planet where relentless robots hunt them at every turn.
To save an entire civilization, they'll have to outsmart impossible odds, trust one another completely, and prove that true heroes aren't defined by their age, but by the choices they make when the fate of the galaxy is on the line.
Exodus - The fate of Planet Earth
Genesis - Man Reborn
A New Beginning - or
the Book of Revelations
From the twilight of Earth's first great civilization to the dawn of humanity's farthest future, this epic trilogy spans millions of years in a sweeping saga of survival, discovery, and destiny.
When an advanced civilization living alongside the dinosaurs faces an extinction-level asteroid, humanity must choose between abandoning its home, preserving the life it cherishes, or facing annihilation beneath a dying world.
Millions of years later, modern humanity uncovers the astonishing truth of its forgotten origins and reconnects with the descendants of those who fled the catastrophe, forcing both civilizations to confront the ethics of colonization, identity, and what it truly means to inherit the Earth.
In the trilogy's breathtaking conclusion, united descendants of ancient Atlantians and modern humans venture into the stars to uncover the fate of long-lost colonies and fulfill a journey begun before history itself.
Blending deep-time science fiction, speculative archaeology, first contact, and grand space exploration, this trilogy is an epic meditation on civilization, extinction, and the enduring hope that every ending is the beginning of something greater.
Three million years in the future, humanity has evolved beyond recognition, divided into six radically different lineages that no longer agree on what it means to be human.
Bound by the fragile remnants of the ancient Accord, Cognitives, Gravids, Pelagians, Aetherials, Symbiotes, and Morphics have survived through separation—until stars begin disappearing, histories rewrite themselves, and entire civilizations vanish from existence.
Forced into an uneasy alliance, six representatives from each lineage must confront an impossible truth: reality itself is not collapsing, but correcting anything it can no longer reconcile.
As each survivor’s deepest flaw threatens to bring about extinction, they must overcome millions of years of mistrust and discover that survival does not come from domination, perfection, or forced unity—but from embracing contradiction.
The Sixth Humanity is an epic science fiction meditation on evolution, identity, and the future of consciousness, exploring whether humanity’s greatest strength lies not in becoming one, but in learning how to exist together as many.
Karnath
Kralek
Xendor
War's End
Demise
Across the vast expanse of the galaxy, three civilizations—Kralek, Xendor, and the forgotten world of Karnath—are drawn into a conflict that will determine the fate of countless worlds.
What begins as a desperate war between science and control, freedom and order, evolves into a deeper journey of discovery as ancient secrets reveal that their civilizations share a forgotten origin and a mysterious connection to the lost energy known as Majik.
Through the consciousness of a Kralekian agent reborn as a medieval king, a divided republic fighting for survival, and an empire built upon the illusion of perfect certainty, enemies discover that their greatest threat is not one another, but the limitations they have placed upon themselves.
As old rivalries give way to fragile alliances, they uncover truths about identity, consciousness, and the nature of existence itself. Yet even unity may not be enough when the galaxy faces its ultimate challenge—the collision of two galaxies and the birth of a new cosmic era.
Spanning worlds, civilizations, and the boundaries between science and mysticism, the five-book saga is an epic exploration of war, transformation, and the enduring question at the heart of all existence: not how we survive the universe, but how we become part of it.
The Memory Atlas is a sweeping Appalachian novel about first love, buried truths, and the stories that keep a community alive.
When acclaimed children's book illustrator Elena Vale returns to her Tennessee hometown to bury her mother, she expects only a brief visit—until she finds the valley she once fled facing extinction beneath a proposed reservoir and the man she blamed for her brother's disappearance leading the fight to save it.
Tasked with completing her mother's unfinished Memory Atlas, a remarkable collection of local histories and hand-drawn maps, Elena is forced to confront the grief, silence, and betrayals that have shaped both her life and the town's. As long-buried family secrets and a century-old land fraud threaten to rewrite the community's history, Elena and Jonah must choose between protecting comforting legends or risking everything for the truth.
Rich with unforgettable characters, the beauty of the Appalachian Mountains, and the enduring power of memory, The Memory Atlas is an emotionally resonant story of forgiveness, homecoming, and the courage to discover that the places worth saving are built not on perfect histories, but on the people willing to tell them honestly.
(Children's Book)
Puffer is a heartwarming children's picture book about friendship, perseverance, and discovering that sometimes a little encouragement is all we need to believe in ourselves.
Puffer is a tiny dragon with one big problem—he can't breathe fire like all the other dragons. Feeling lonely and left out, he dreams of the day he can join their fiery fun.
Everything changes when he meets a kind little girl who shares an unusual idea involving a basket full of spicy chili peppers. What follows is a funny, delightful adventure filled with hiccups, smoke, sparks, and one very happy dragon who learns that courage often begins with trying something new.
Filled with warmth, humor, and colorful illustrations, Puffer celebrates kindness, self-confidence, and the joy of finding your own spark.
Other Story Concepts (not active)
Notes from dreams, brainstorming, personal experiences, history, science, philosophy, people-watching, news, mythology, nature or asking "What if?" Inspiration is usually less like a lightning strike and more like assembling a mosaic. Individual pieces—a scientific fact, a historical parallel, a personal emotion, a philosophical question, a striking image—gradually fit together until they reveal a story worth telling.
Algol - Ghoul, demon (demonstar).
Aphelion - Point in orbit of a body farthest from the body of which it revolves.
Bairn - Child.
Blatherskite - Talks much, says little.
Dreams - Everyone has the same dream about some guy, except for the guy. Guy doesn't know why everyone recognizes him the next day.
Harbinger - Two eleven-year-old girls go to a sideshow fortune teller. She gives one a cheap horoscope outlook, but becomes serious with the other. She says that the devil will visit her five times before something horrible happens to her. Warns her that she mustn’t drink sacrificial blood. Gives her an amulet to be worn always. After the third encounter with Satan, the girl is convinced and wears the amulet at all times. She gets tricked into taking it off for the fourth coming. Begins with the fourth appearance and centers on the final coming.
Heaven or Hell - Two identical twins (one timid, the other malicious). Both die at the same time at the same location. Angel of Death and the Demon of Repossession confuse the spirits and take the wrong ones.
An exchange is set up on neutral ground (Earth), but during the transfer, the forces collide, and the two brothers escape their spirit bindings and become two other fateful twins. The malicious brother forces his twin to run with him, hiding out on Earth, to try to escape his hellbound heart.
Insomnia - The main character can enter other people’s dreams. Finds out about some others who can do the same. The government wants these people and has captured a few. The main character becomes the leader of the rebel dream force against the government. After all, the government is killing people.
Key Master - In the beginning, there was but one key, a key which would open all of the doors of the universe. The key was entrusted to the only creature in the universe careful enough to use its power for selfless purposes. That creature came to be known as the Key Master.
Kidnapped - War between the Stars - Ace pilot and wife with three-year-old boy caught by aggressives en route to an outer boundary colony. Pilot and wife are killed and boy ends up raised by aggressives. Boy becomes the strongest aggressive captain in the fleet. He’s captured by the humans and enlightened of his true origins. He’s torn between cultures
Land of the Living - The main character becomes terminally ill and gives up on life. A mysterious child (supernatural) befriends the main character and shows him/her what life really is and why he/she was put on Earth to begin with (along with the entire human race).
Last on the List - A man in black gets the souls of the main character’s friends, but before they die, they are able to warn the main character about the man in black and his purpose in the scheme of things.
Mirror, Mirror - using mirrors as portals to other dimensions.
Obelisk - something powerful imprisoned within the tall, four-sided stone pillar that tapers upward and ends in a pyramidal point.
Sleeper - Every two thousand years the sleeper awakes, but the sleeper isn’t the only one. An archaeologist unearths a new kind of stone (a statue), harder than diamond. It comes to life, part organic, part living rock, part alien machinery. At night it visits the archaeologist at his bedside, wrapping his hands, feet, and mouth in pulsating stone. It tells the scientist that the sleeper will awaken soon and that he must fight the sleeper. He then fuses his body with the scientist’s body. The archaeologist becomes a living gargoyle-like monster (the story focuses on him getting used to his new powers and then stopping the sleeper from awakening).
Star Warrior - Bounty hunter finally catches up with his prey.
Unseen - Government develops the perfect soldier, a genetically engineered cybernetic organism with the ability to shapeshift into anything with a similar mass to his current body. The government wants to dismantle him since he’s no longer needed (peace talks settle the war), but the chameleon doesn’t want to die. First half of the book is about the chameleon's innocence & brainwashing to kill. Second half centers on his capture or death (reminiscent of Blade Runner).