Projects
The Many Murders
of Sam Marsh
Weird things happen in Maydelle, South Carolina--lights in the skies, flocks of dead birds falling like rain, garbled radio signals. Typical rural weird stuff. What’s not normal for a small town is murder.
If Jesse Hawthorne hated cops before, he hates them even more now. Ever since his best friend, Sam Marsh, was shot in the woods with no witnesses, Jesse’s been desperate for closure, but the sheriff has been dragging his feet. When Jesse realizes the sheriff is protecting the murderer, he decides to take justice into his own hands. And Maydelle’s strangeness is going to help him. Impossible video clips start appearing on rental DVDs returned to Jesse’s job at the video store. They lead him to an abandoned bunker in the woods, where he gets the ability to rewind time. After a month of grieving, he gets Sam back, alive and well. Now Jesse just has to keep him that way.
But Sam is murdered. Again.
Jesse keeps spinning back time, desperate to find the right combination of events that will keep his best friend alive. But every time Sam dies, Jesse’s heart is broken anew--broken enough that Jesse wonders whether Sam is just his best friend, or if they could be something more. The only way to find out is to keep Sam alive at all costs.
Be kind. Rewind. Save your friend.
Dyna Faraday was once destined for engineering greatness like her mother, but now leads a mundane life as a plumber in a city of glittering neon and gritty skyscrapers. She pockets screws to trade for food, keeps her head down, and tries to forget about Angel, her mother's deadly final failure. Angel was programmed to erase traumatic memories of the Great War, but the artificial intelligence chose to erase all memories on his network before being shut down.
When an android, Victoria, plans to retrieve her family's memories, Dyna reluctantly joins her. Together, they travel to the abandoned island where Angel was prototyped--but something's not right. The power's still on, moss grows in patterns too perfect, flowers break into fractal tessellations, and the residents left behind are now a hive mind. As the frightening reality of the island grows clear and her feelings for Victoria intensify, Dyna confronts her own dark secrets. She can't keep lying to Victoria. She came to the island not to destroy Angel, but to reboot him.
Dyna wants to forget.
And I Remember
A Shard Like
No Other
Claire's job is to keep the royal court smiling. Her jester performances aren't just for show—if despair lingers too long, a shadow can twist into a ravenous horror.
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When an intruder attacks her closest friend, fellow jester Bastien, Claire lashes out with forbidden magic. Only the children of the gods could do such a thing, and they were all supposedly hunted down by the Wolf, a legendary killer of divine blood. The punishment is swift—Bastien is executed for defending her, and Claire is thrown in a prison cell to rot.
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Shattered by guilt, Claire's sorrow manifests as a creature of teeth, eyes, and hunger, born from her shadow. Instead of killing her, the creature helps her escape, believing Bastien is his creator, and that Claire can lead her to him. As they journey across fields of carnivorous roses and frozen wastelands, pursued by the god-killing Wolf, Claire balances a desperate lie. The monster hungers for Bastien’s memories, and if it discovers he’s already dead, it may tear Claire apart next.
Nat Gray doesn't believe in God—or monsters. Her popular atheist podcast exposes corruption and calls bullshit on anything supernatural. During one broadcast, local party girl, Courtney Driscoll, calls in with a terrifying confession: she knows what happens when we die. Nat assumes Courtney is stoned or drunk, until Courtney says something that sticks: “I think I’m next.”
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Courtney Driscoll should be dead. Instead, she’s haunted by something she saw—or maybe unleashed—after taking a new drug called Halo. Now her friends are dying, glowing from within, their bodies levitating before burning out like stars. She begs Nat to tell her story and warn others before the creature that whispered to her in the bathroom mirror comes back to claim her.
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What begins as Nat’s latest exposé spirals into a waking nightmare. At a party, she’s secretly dosed with Halo and sees the monsters for herself—shining, many-limbed things that speak in her brother’s voice, dragging up memories she’s spent years trying to bury. The footage from her camera confirms the creatures are real. Unless Nat and Courtney can uncover what Halo really is and how to stop it, they’ll end up like the others who took it—marked for death.
Hunger Makes
Me Holy
