When darkness falls, the vampires come out. Sixteen-year-old Kiara Morrow knows that better than anyone. She's been trained her whole life to wipe bloodsuckers off the face of the earth. But then she meets Luke. He's a vampire but he's unlike any vamp Kiara's ever known. ***** Luke may be what Kiara's been looking for her whole life, but as far as her family is concerned, the only good vampire is a dead vampire. The closer she grows to him, the more Kiara is forced to confront the foundation of lies her life has been built on. But Kiara's bloodthirsty family isn't the only problem they have to face. People in town are dying. Something evil is looming on the horizon... [[word count: 100,000 - 150,000]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston

NEWSPAPER REPORT 27 YEAR OLD GIRL GONE MISSING IN SMALL ELEVATOR LOCATED IN AURORA SUSPICIOUS DEATH *NOT* CONCLUDED AS A MURDER YET ANY WITNESSES, ANY INFORMATION, OR ANYTHING ON THIS CASE, CONTACT THE FBI OR 911 IMMEDIATELY.

Now in trade paper and for all eReaders at Amazon and Smashwords! An old man dies in a very public and very strange suicide-or was it murder? Jeff Cramer has to figure out which, and quickly. Nothing about this case appears normal, and it could get very dangerous, very quickly. This novelette rose to #4 in Science Fiction on Wattpad in 2014. Now on sale in trade paperback and for all eReaders at Amazon, Smashwords, iTunes, Kobo, etc. My novel The First Jumper, which is on Wattpad as first draft, will be out on Amazon and other venues about the beginning of April, 2015. It is a prequel to this story--but read this story first. If you enjoy this, you may find that story enjoyable as well. Feedback is welcome. If you like what you read, please click the star! And of course, an online review would be the ultimate encouragement. Thanks! Brian Groover

Iris Morerose is a girl living with her at home father, her little brother who has too big of an imagination to the point of where it worries Iris, and her working mother who works from seven to twelve every day. She has a hatred for her father, who is having an affair with a slutty woman, but other than that, has a very happy life. Jeffrey Philips, better known as Jeff the Killer, lives in an abandoned city that is hidden using Slender Man's powers. One day, BEN, Masky, Hoody, and Jeff are walking down the streets of Iris's home town when he sees her. He plans on killing her when his life is saved by the girl. What follows is him falling for her, and taking her to be his beautiful lover. She, being her sassy self, has quite a few things to say about this. Will she escape him and his friends and go back home, or will she become the killer's girl?