Anthony Hains

Special Agent Cole Nightshade has learned how to use the telepathic abilities that have protected him since childhood to apprehend the most brutal of criminals. His latest case involves a serial killer who's been christened the Vampire of Charlottesville thanks to a unique MO: biting the necks of victims before murdering them and taking body parts as trophies. While investigating one of the crime scenes, Cole is confronted with the vision of an angry, disheveled young man who doesn't want him to get too close to the truth. David Fairchild is a freshman at the University of Virginia. Smart, likable, and good looking, he's the sort who seems destined to achieve great things. But David has a history of disturbing incidents, kept hidden by his well-to-do family, that are precipitated by a man who speaks to him in his mind. As the investigation heats up, Cole and David's paths are set on a collision course. Now Cole must put the pieces together before David carries out the will of his secret friend-and the Vampire of Charlottesville claims another victim.

Before she died, Cole Nightshade's grandmother taught him how to keep his demons from coming out of their hiding places and wreaking havoc. But none of Nana's lessons have prepared him for Saint Edwards Mental Asylum, where he's landed after a foster-care placement gone wrong. Saint Edwards has a history of abuse and death that makes itself known to Cole in alarming ways. Walls containing the spirits of prior inmates scream in agony. Young women who once ran from monsters, or from their own pain, leap to their deaths again and again. The good news: Cole's new friends on the pediatric ward believe him when he tells them what he sees. The bad news: they have a bigger problem than ghosts. For years, a creature known as the Creeper has been preying on kids in the asylum. Rumor has it that if you catch a glimpse of him, you die. And someone-or something-has been stalking Cole since his first night at Saint Edwards.

Sometimes they come back angry ... Ace's life is satisfying in an ordinary sort of way. At twenty-five he's deeply in love with his wife of two years, and he and Runa are expecting their first child. But when Ace's mother-in-law passes away after a short illness, things take a turn for the weird. Everyone in the family knows that Gretchen dabbled in the occult prior to her death, inviting friends over for occasional tarot card readings and s ances. What most of them don't know is that she spent a considerable amount of time training her grandchildren in the art of the uncanny. Now Brinn and Oliver appear to be experimenting with strange rituals-rituals linked to increasingly disturbing events. To get a handle on what's happening, Ace and Runa begin investigating Gretchen's explorations into the supernatural. But it will take time, and a shocking series of developments, for them to discover how high the stakes are for their growing family.

After the sudden death of his father, Ryan Perry moves to his grandmother's coastal home in South Carolina. Within days, he is haunted by a sinister presence-a malevolent creature masquerading as his twin. As the hauntings become dangerous, Ryan encounters an additional threat: two menacing brothers and their caretaker somehow connected to this other twin. Ryan soon realizes that in order to save himself and his family, he must confront the all-to-real presence of an unimaginable evil. Birth Offering is a horror novel about a boy thrust into a living nightmare and the cumulative psychological impact of evil actions by multiple past generations.