検索キーワード： 著者 "Timothy Patrick Means" すべてのカテゴリー

The 16-year-old girl disappeared after school on an October afternoon. The police have exhausted all leads. It’s been weeks, but her mother, Barbara, will not stop searching for Melissa. Her husband, Mark, has given up…and started drinking. Her younger daughter Rachel feels neglected. The police think she is a nuisance. Her job is in jeopardy. But even more mysterious things begin happening around Barbara. The shadows that have no source…a dark form glimpsed beneath Melissa’s bed...the ravens that have congregated on the lawn.

These are just a few exploits of Sterling, the mysterious psychic. One learns of his aptitudes and the struggles he faced throughout his life. The ability to see into the spiritual realm is a gift he both appreciated and despised because it often brought him closer to the living and the dead and forced him to experience the last moments of the innocents whose lives had been cut short.

A new brotherhood formed by a blood ritual. The Iron Born Pirates feared and hated above all swashbucklers, were considered the most ruthless band of Buccaneers sailing upon the Spanish Main. They rob and destroy at will, with no one to end their reign of terror. They are brothers of blood until the end of life. Shipwrecked…abandoned…rescued by the enemy. Should he save a pirate’s life to gain his freedom?

When the notorious pirate captain Redbone forms a new band of buccaneers, the Pirates Born of Iron and Blood, honor is a matter of life or death. Redbone’s grand idea seems reasonable—at least in a world where pirates also rule the high seas and many of the seaports. The Bloody Hag, a cold and ghastly-looking device, was created from Redbone’s imagination for this one purpose only: to bring together only the pirates worthy of the honor of wearing its mark of honor on their wrist. In Redbone’s world, you might end up dead if you aren’t a member of his bloody band of brothers.

Lillian Newburg isn’t concerned when she finds a gold card with a note stuck under her car windshield. Concerned, no. Curious, yes. Who would write such a note? Is someone from her office playing a joke? She stuffs the note in her pocket and forgets about it. But this note is no joke. A mysterious stranger has told Lillian that she is in mortal danger. If she continues to ignore the message, what happens next won’t be the stranger’s problem.