Sanburn Stories

Imprisoned in Hades for twenty-five years, Emrick Evenwood awakens to find himself hanging from the gallows with his legs embedded in a lake of ice. Escaping to his home in the land of the living, he quickly learns that his house has collected more than dust while he has been away: the Duncan family has taken up residence. Unwilling to kick children into the street, Emrick allows them to stay temporarily. However, the Duncan's are shrouded in dark secrets of their own. Emrick soon discovers that the young goth-girl Heather is ruthlessly abused at school on a daily basis, while her brother stands by unwilling to defend her. Alone in her suffering, Heather is pushed closer to the edge every day. With a host of demons on his trail, Emrick must discover the secrets of the artifact he stole from Hades in time to prevent a demonic invasion. But, perhaps more important, he must also unravel the intricate mysteries of the Duncan family. The most perplexing of which is why the children have a dark connection to the underworld.

This is my current WIP, so things will change here a lot (hopefully). A young boy is surprised to find a girl in his personal fortress of solitude. What he doesn't know is that she is an ancient druid sent to save the world.

Driven by vanity, large corporations have made it possible to custom tailor human genetics to whatever the customers desire. As a result, the human genome has been corrupted by years of abuse and manipulation bringing about countless diseases and strange deformities. Erin, a young girl with rare, unaltered DNA, is in danger of being discovered and sent to GenDye, an insidious company trying to restore mankind's DNA through forced breeding of natural humans.

This was my first completed novel...ever. I wrote it a couple decades ago. It isn't about zombies...well, not exactly. It was inspired by the book "Phantoms" by Dean Koontz (before they ruined it with the movie). I took zombie culture and gave it a different back story and tied in a West African deity. I'm sure it is full of mistakes, but...here it is...for posterity...everyone starts somewhere. This is mine.

To stop a demon from corrupting the world, a young fae is charged with stopping the black wave of corruption washing across the faerie world. On her journey to the source of the evil, she watches her companions endure betrayal, deceit and murder - all by her own hand. As the world around her becomes twisted and corrupt, she fights to keep from becoming just as evil as the demon she is trying to defeat.Briett

At the tender age of seven, "daddy's girl" Myra Wilson is abandoned by her father. Turning to her mom for love and guidance, she instead receives indifference and neglect. She is basically an orphan in her own home. Friendless and alone she spends her childhood with schoolwork, cookbooks and daydreams of the life before her father disappeared. After a family battle for Myra's grandfather's ancestral home, fifteen-year-old Myra finds herself traveling unaccompanied to rural England. She will attend the private school where her mom now teaches until the newly inherited house sells. A new school is bad enough, but having to be in the same building as her mother every day is nearly unbearable. While her mom is at work, Myra receives a package containing a poem and a strange metal bracelet. With the help of her new friend, Katelyn, Myra solves the poem's riddle and finds the unexpected in the form of hidden rooms, and letters to her from her father. Add to that a journey in a space ship to alien worlds, and the possibility of finding love in an unforeseen place, and Myra's isolated existence becomes something more stellar. She can't waste time worrying about these new revelations, however, because more important than all this is the one thing in which she'd nearly lost hope - finding her father.

While staying with an elderly friend of the family, Elena finds a small glass bauble in the attic and soon finds herself pulled up the layers of reality. To get back homeward, all she has to do is find a woman named Eleanor. But, what seemed like a simple task quickly becomes an impossibility when the onion is stolen. Now, she must get it back before it is delivered to Eclipse, the ultimate embodiment of evil, who plans to use it to spread his influence further than he ever has before. Elena soon realizes that, even if she retrieves the onion, the only way to make sure everyone is safe is to destroy it. But, how will that be possible when the only one powerful enough to shatter it is the one she is trying to keep it from?

(I don't have one written yet!)

Anna Williams' peaceful life bursts into flames when a man obsessed with finding the mythical zhar-ptitsa--the Russian equivalent of the phoenix--murders her best friend.