Pleasant Valley, Arizona Territory, 1882. The land between the Mogollon Rim and the creek bottoms is beautiful the way a held breath is beautiful - still, charged, waiting. Nora Callan came west with a dead husband and a gift she does not name: a barometer's sensitivity to the invisible weight of what men are about to do. She did not come for trouble. But the valley has its own intentions. When two ranching families - the Tewksburys and the Grahams, friends once, now something else - begin their slow slide toward the bloodiest feud in the history of the American West, Nora finds herself caught between them: reading the weather, unable to stop the storm. The Rim Country is a story about what a place remembers. And what it refuses to forget.

"My mama always told me to get out of Alabama and never look back..." Returning home for her mother's funeral, Maeve quickly finds herself embroiled in a supernatural mystery that has haunted her family for eons, and the kidnapping of her little cousin.

In a rural North American town, Scott wakes up within his home to find his wife missing. Through the cold and the night, he searches for her. But morning will come. And time makes the only difference until dusk comes again.

When Maryanne Carter's young daughter vanishes from their rural Southern trailer park, the town is quick to blame her. After all, Maryanne has always been the girl people whisper about. But the deeper Maryanne digs, the more she uncovers about her town's forgotten history: a congregation obsessed with purity, a riverbed full of unspoken names, and a ledger of children stolen in the name of salvation. As the past bleeds into the present, Maryanne is pulled into a world where the dead refuse to stay buried. To save her daughter, she must confront the ghosts of a faith twisted beyond recognition, and the secrets that have haunted the small town of Braswell for generations. Content Warnings: References to drugs and alcohol, referenced murder, missing children, cults --- Fully completed, but I'm releasing new chapters every Friday. I'm thinking about publishing this story officially, so please feel free to leave constructive criticism. Chapters Published: 17/20

Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird has lived her entire life with her Grandpa, Leonard, at a seedy motel and truck stop off Georgia's I-16. But when Leonard moves her to a crumbling old house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Ms. Annalee Spivey, Gradle is plunged into a lush, magical world much stranger and more dangerous than from the one she came. Here she meets Sonny Joe Stitch, a Siamese fighting fish connoisseur overdosed on testosterone, a crippled, Bible-thumping hobo named Ceif "Tadpole" Walker, and the only true friend she will ever know, a schizophrenic genius, music-man, and professional dumpster-diver, D-5 Delvis Miles. As Gradle falls deeper into Delvis's imaginary and fantastical world, unsettling dangers lurk, and when surfaced Gradle discovers unforeseen depths in herself and the people she loves the most. Gradle Bird is an unusual tale of self-discovery and redemption that explores the infirmities of fatherly love, the complexities of human cruelty, and the consequences of guilt, proving they are possible to overcome no matter how dark and horrible the cause.

"The first time he died, no one noticed. But the second time, the world ended." When a forgotten farmer dies alone in a fading Carolina town, EMT Micah D'Lane thinks it's just another call. But when a stranger arrives claiming to buy the old man's land, memories begin to unravel and something about him feels hauntingly familiar.

Evangeline Harper's world shatters when her husband, Sebastian Thorn, is declared dead in the Civil War. But when he mysteriously returns, alive yet changed, Evangeline is overjoyed-until she realizes something dark and sinister has taken hold of him. As eerie occurrences plague their plantation and Sebastian's true nature unfolds, Evangeline must confront the terrifying possibility that the man she loves may no longer be human. In a twisted tale of love, loss, and the supernatural, Evangeline faces an impossible choice: succumb to the darkness with Sebastian or find a way to escape it-if she can.

When 17 year old Georgia Beauregard's best friend turns up dead in the river by their secret childhood hideaway, her family's long-buried secrets start to surface. On a remote Tennessee farm steeped in tradition, silence, and shadows, Georgia must unravel a web of lies, power, betrayal, and forbidden love. But as the truth creeps closer, so does danger. Someone's hiding the truth. Someone close. What really happened by the oak tree-and how far will Georgia go to find out?

A contemporary southern gothic mystery series about a teenager who discovers a cache of centuries-old letters containing clues to crimes happening in the present day. READERS CHOOSE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT! Parish Mail is written like a TV series–there are over-arching mystery and romantic story arcs that extend between the episodes, while each episode has a smaller case that is presented and solved. Along the way, I will asks you, the reader, to make several small decisions as you read. These choices do not impact the overarching storyline, but certain combinations “unlock” clues to the series’ mystery, which are embedded in the text.

A Southern rootworker. A hell-born intruder. One blood-soaked night where only power survives. When something ancient tears through the veil and claws at Eula Mae's doorstep, it doesn't come with flames-it comes with silence, hunger, and the stench of something left to rot beneath the church steps. Her wards hold. Her dog fights. But this demon don't care about lines or prayers-it wants in. Armed with Psalms, graveyard dirt, and every hard-earned ounce of conjure her bloodline ever whispered into the wood of that house, Eula must battle it to the bone. In the dark, surrounded by spirits and soaked in sweat, she learns the truth: the house remembers. And it will fight. But will it be enough? Set deep in the backwoods where fire talks and roots don't lie, The Devil Don't Knock Twice is a raw, terrifying tale of ancestral power, southern conjure, and spiritual warfare that won't let go. If it knocks again... It ain't knocking.