The Books

New Release · Standalone

The Skinning Season

In 1979, something took Harry off Pasaw Island and left his seven-year-old son alone in a deer stand in the dark.

Forty-seven years later, opening weekend of deer season comes to Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, and the hunters start dying. Bullets tear through the thing and it keeps coming. Whatever stalks the swamp isn't killing like an animal. It's hunting the way the hunters do.

To end it, Jed will have to walk back into the swamp that took his father and get close enough to put his hands inside the monster.

Book 1

DEADERS

"There . . . are . . . no . . . deaders." That's what the government said. Days later, the dead were walking.

Outside Monroe, Louisiana, Jacob hides in a cellar with his wife and daughter while something that used to be human beats on the door. By the next night he's lost them both. All he has left is a gas can, a forty-eight-inch crowbar, and a promise to burn away the taint, one deader at a time.

Book 2

DEADERS 2

The dead own the world now. Jacob intends to burn it clean.

Jacob lost everything when the spores came: his wife, his daughter, his home. He survived because his blood carries something no one else’s does, and that’s exactly why the most powerful people left alive want him.

Standalone

Eve Into Zombies

Eve is eleven years old. She has spent her whole life locked in a cell inside a research facility in Louisiana, and the doctors who study her are right to be afraid of her.

One night the doors open.

By morning the dead are walking. Men, women and children. Squirrels in the oak trees. A bear in the Missouri woods. Everything that dies gets back up hungry, and none of it touches the little girl walking through the middle of it with a smile on her face.

Standalone

Black Drop

It started with one drop.

Something has been waiting in the dark, miles beneath the Earth, since before anything walked. Now it is rising through the rock and into the water. Wells. Rivers. Reservoirs. Every glass from every tap.

Dr. Addie Rook has spent her career studying life in the deep places nobody else cares about. She is the first to see what the black really is, and the first to understand that it can't be reasoned with, filtered out or outrun.

Book 1

Moon Over D'Arbonne

Union Parish, Louisiana. 2008. Two men are torn apart on a gravel road behind the Angus chemical plant, and whatever did it left claw marks no bear could make.

Detective Marcie Coopwood has worked every kind of ugly the parish can offer. But as the bodies pile up along the D'Arbonne bottoms and the papers start calling the killer the Spearsville Butcher, every trail she follows leads back through the cypress swamps to a name she never wanted to hear: Grayson Gates, the quiet boy from Rocky Branch who sat at the back table with her at Farmerville High.

Gray made a deal with an old swamp witch to become something more. Now the moon owns him. And the beast has a long memory.

Book 2

Bled for Love

New Orleans, Mardi Gras. Séverine has waited three hundred years for one boy to love her back. When she finally finds him, she kills him.

Danny died in her arms swearing he had known true love. Since then she has searched for a lover who can survive her. Memphis. Chicago. Las Vegas. Savannah. New York. Every city ends the same way: a lover who isn't quite right, and a body nobody can explain.

Marcie Coopwood is counting the bodies. With silver rounds and a silver-lined wooden stake, she is never more than a few nights behind.

Book 3

The Midnight Coach

New Orleans, 2032. Bodies are turning up in a railyard where no train has moved, and a ticket stub in a dead man's wallet is for a night service that stopped running six years ago.

Marcie Coopwood, one eye and a cane, comes to the yard at night to find out what is still riding the midnight coach.

Book 4

What the Sand Keeps

Monroe, Louisiana. A Saturday afternoon in September. A teenager's phone catches forty-one seconds of something coming up out of the sandbox at Little Dixie Park, and millions of people stop the video at second eleven.

Marcie Coopwood came home to Union Parish to heal. One eye gone and a scar under her ear that burns whenever something old is near. But the sand under Little Dixie has been swallowing children for more than two hundred years, and nobody in Monroe ever wanted to count them.

Book 1

Lost Son

Little Andus Fandorin finally hooks Old Grump, the biggest fish in the Melfic Woods. Then something far bigger comes up out of the river and swallows him whole.

His father, Debrin, won't wait for the town or the King. With his mule and a promise, he follows the long black river south.

Book 2

Bailath's Crew

Bailath drinks hard, curses harder, and was a hero of the war. Only five of his mercenary company are left, and now someone has sent assassins after them.

Book 3

Yellow Robes

The Melfic Saga's opening story reaches its end, and Andus's gift turns out to matter more than anyone in Homerty ever guessed.

Comedy

The Bagel Conspiracy

Something completely different: a satirical comic novel about a bored accountant who falls down an internet rabbit hole.