Taking a well deserved vacation from her taxing job as a defense attorney in the Heavenly Court, Jessie Vickmann tries to relax and focus on her husband, Darius, and their children, but two days into her vacation, Jessie is summoned back to court to attend a special emergency session that will threaten her way of life, from her seemingly perfect marriage to Darius to her prestigious job in the Heavenly Court. Devastating secrets are unveiled, a dangerous relationship is rekindled, and human beings are once again in peril. With time and Heaven working against her, Jessie sneaks down to Earth to deal with the consequences of a past sin, hoping she isn't too late.
An American soldier, Sergeant Abbey “McJack” finds herself recently widowed in the Iraqi war. Her life tour and her original career in aviation cut short. She had lost everything she held dear to her from the love of her life, to her ideals, her faith, and dealing with the world in general. Having no family of her own, her deceased husband’s family already distant and mute, she is advised by a mutual friend and co-worker to take stock of her life and to take a trip abroad in order to find out what she wants to do with her new life. In her travels, she ends up in Ullapool finding the idyllic life much to her liking that she finds starting over much easier than she thought until she meets Gregory McGregor. For Greg, this new and attractive tourist piques his interest, though he is not the only one in the small town to notice her. He finds her weary from her tour of duty in the American-Iraqi war. He first assumes she is on military leave, for she barely talks about the past and keeps to herself on most occasions. In due time, he realizes they may have met before and is reminded of his promise for revenge. For she was the one to cost him nearly his life and for taking his brother’s life, practically rendering his family apart. However, there was one small problem; he had become smitten with her. Did the faes of fate have a sick sense of humor or was God above to blame? Only time would tell, completing its full intricate weave on its circular path.
SIX TWISTED TALES OF HORROR AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TORMENT Layers of Darkness is an anthology that celebrates the many subgenres of horror. Existential, Folk, Fairy Tale, Psychological, Body, Cosmic, Western, Supernatural, and LGBTQ+ are all explored in this emotionally engaging and unnervingly creepy collection of chillers. THE GROVE A woman and her child visit their local cemetery, only to become lost within the spiral of a mysterious grove that has seemingly materialised from another dimension. ARIEL Beth and Dante Fiennes have suffered a wound so deep it can only continue to fester. What appears to be the couple's salvation could instead be a sinister warning. She's home, but she's not the same. OLD CRONE As Prince Darius clings to life in the midst of serious illness, the king and queen take desperate measures by seeking out a hermit believed to be a witch in order to save their only son and heir. ONE FOR THE NIGHT Two strangers get more than they bargained for when they stop over in a deadbeat Texas town on the edge of the Mexican border. Every bad deed deserves another. DREAM TOWN Retracing his deceased mother's steps, a young boy embarks on a journey of discovery with his grandmother, peeling back the layers of a seaside resort deeply mired in the most unsettling form of unreality. RIPE During a long-distance trip across state to visit his sister, a troubled young socialite gets lost on an isolated road and is forced to choose between the comfort of self-preservation and saving an innocent soul from the clutches of a child-thirsty cult.
Life as a backdrop has its rewards. Miss Brianna Silverton not only prefers life in the background—she depends on it. It is far easier to decide upon a proper husband for her younger sisterz that way, plus, it keeps her rooted as the spinster she is determined to be. She has secrets to hide, and she isn’t about to let another man touch her—never again. He knew it the very moment he saw her. A constant wanderer, the Earl of Luhaunt,Sebastian Rallager, never paused in one place for long. Not until the moment he saw Brianna across a crowded ballroom floor. Instinct had never failed Sebastian, and he knew it instantly—she was his. Now he just had to convince her of that fact. Fate always finds a way. Just as Sebastian begins to see that staying in one place might be exactly what he had been searching for, secrets of the past loom. Because Brianna is not only hiding herself from the world, she is hiding secrets that cannot see the light of day. Secrets that could destroy her, and the one man determined to love her.
A famous artist and university professor, Joanna Humpharies dies under mysterious circumstances. Her secrets seemingly die along with her. Until her gardener begins digging into her life, she was his friend, his employer, his obsession. He'd spent years, being close to her. Watching her. Sneaking into her bedroom when she slept. He thought he knew EVERYTHING about her. Until now. Unable to let her go, and wrecked with grief Avery Thorpe starts looking into exactly what happened to her. Starting with her husband: Jeffery. Unexpectedly at Joanna's funeral a former student, Ariella shows up and Jeffery offers to let her stay in the house less than 24 hours after his wife is buried. As Avery's suspicions grow deeper as he investigates so does his distrust for those around him. Something sinister is lurking in the pines seeking revenge and its closing in on all three of them. What really happened to Joanna on the night she died? What does her eerie paintings have to do with it all?
