Having formed a family with a blood oath, Amelia Hush, Jason Calloway, and the rest of crew of the soon to be named space ship start to have fun together. However, that fun is soon interrupted by AI powered robots, giant slime monsters, and the most wanted man in the galaxy. It will take a miracle for the whole crew to emerge alive.
Charlie has moved to a new town with her brother, looking for a future beyond her childhood, which was marred by an alcoholic mother and late father. She wants a new life, a happy one, with her brother, and nothing more than going to her new college and having friends. But soon her happy life turns into one of fear and confusion, as a ghost wearing a goat skull starts to haunt her. Bearing an uncanny resemblance to a local monster myth called Misfortune, the ghost shows up at her work, her school, and even at her house and over her bed. Reaching her breaking point after a particularity horrifying encounter, she turns to her friend for help. Together, they learn that this ghost isn't malevolent, but searching for help and recognition over his death. As tentative allies, they uncover, after several bizarre instances, that define Charlie’s future, and who she always has been. About the Author Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, A.J. Zurn is an avid reader, crocheter, and creator of many things. They are a tenacious and passionate writer with a house full of rescued pets. In their free time, Zurn loves to cook and bake for their family. They currently reside in New Auburn, Wisconsin.
The Zama Codex is a fictional novel set in Central America and structured as alternating chapters describing parallel stories, one set during the fall of the Mayan classic age and the other at a present day archaeological excavation. The reader is drawn into the life of Zama, a scribe and noble living in a highland Mayan city-state (circa 800 A.D). When the city's high priest prophesizes the demise of Mayan civilization, Zama becomes apprentice and scribe to Chaco, a sorcerer with an ambitious plan to save the best of Mayan mystical knowledge from oblivion. The parallel story follows events surrounding the discovery of Zama's codex containing instructions for the acquisition of mystical power on a cosmic scale.