Kirjahaku

The open road called, but Cole Charles Pecker did not want to hear. "Cole, the rules of this road trip are simple," Grace told her little brother. "The rules are that Peckers take their medication. Bad things happen when we don't." Under the guardianship of his sister, twenty-four-year-old Cole Charles Pecker sets out on a journey to California, where the two siblings can escape the recent tragedies of their past. The destination is a mysterious commune, where Grace Pecker will serve as a nurse for a team of like-minded social justice warriors. Cole Pecker just wants to go home and farm his land. In their mother's old van, the two siblings set out as near strangers, but Grace vows to change that and be a big sister to a little brother she has not known for years. Grace seems determined to make things right with her brother, no matter what obstacles stand in their way, but taking care of a brother with special needs might not be as simple as she thinks.

Cole Charles Pecker had grand plans to bring his brother and sister together and regain their family fortune. Cole's brother and sister have never gotten along, but both agree Cole's plans must change. Christian wants Cole back in a mental institution, where he can receive proper care. After a month on the road with Cole, Grace believes Cole can thrive on the outside with a little family support...but not in the old farmhouse where they were raised. After years in the Navy, Christian is convinced that with the right mindset, no obstacle is too high...except when it comes to Cole farming. The crops that will save the family farm are in the ground, but Christian fears that they have been planted too late. The repairs to the old Queen Anne farmhouse are coming along, but Grace discovers a hidden cellar that terrifies Cole and becomes his new obsession. Cole hears noises at night and sees strange lights. Sometimes, he still sees shadows, but he is certain that he can make those shadows disappear. Cole believes that he can hold his family together, but he is not so sure about the ground beneath them. In April, Cole cast the demons from his house, but Cole knows demons do not so easily leave.

The system has failed the Pecker siblings again. The madman who raped Cole Charles Pecker and killed a beloved neighbor has been set free. Already battered by the destruction of their childhood home, the Pecker trio knows they cannot count on the system to keep them safe. When the three siblings attempt to entrap the man who calls himself the Fifth Horseman of God, Grace Pecker vanishes and the manhunt for the Fifth Horseman begins.

After losing their childhood home and nearly losing their lives to a madman, the Pecker family just wants life to get back to normal. As Grace and Christian Pecker recover from their injuries, Cole Pecker goes to work on the family farm, but a mysterious artifact Cole discovered in once-flooded fields seems to have endowed Cole with mysterious powers. Cole tries to keep these powers secret, but a young documentary filmmaker has turned her attention to the Peckers when rumors erupt that Grace Pecker was raised from the dead. Grace and Christian try to shield Cole from the ploys of filmmaker Talitha Ferret, but Cole has developed a crush. With the Four Corners Fair drawing crowds to the area, Cole cannot help letting secrets from his past slip. When a magician who claims to dabble in the dark arts discovers Cole has legitimate powers, Cole finds himself enmeshed in a scheme that forces him to reveal his powers to the world.

With the farm saved once again, Cole Pecker thinks that he can get back to the business of preparing for harvest. Jesse Langland was Cole's first consensual sexual encounter-a one-night stand on a road trip to California. When Jesse arrives at the Pecker Farm fired from her teaching position and very much pregnant, Cole must put aside his childlike ways and attempt to be the man of the house. Running a farm is easy enough for Cole, but being a parent was not in his plans. Cole's older brother and sister attempt to shield Cole from his responsibilities. Jesse claims that she needs nothing from Cole but a place to stay until she gets back on her feet. Cole wants to be a good man and do the right thing. For Cole, that means a burgundy suit and an emerald ring. Jesse has other plans.

Harvest was supposed to be a simple affair for the Pecker family, but a catastrophic fire sends Cole Charles Pecker into a coma that opens the door to a hellish dreamscape somehow linked to the unexplainable phenomena that have surrounded the family farm for decades. As Cole attempts to decipher the strange visions seemingly linked to his body's deterioration, those visions reveal secrets buried in his past. As Cole fights for his life, Grace and Christian Pecker struggle to understand the supernatural phenomena that they always assumed were rooted in their mother and brother's schizophrenia. When Cole emerges from his coma, the unexplainable grows malevolent, forcing the Peckers to enlist the help of a team of power evangelists who might just hold the secret to closing the door that Cole's coma has opened.

Cole Pecker thinks he and his siblings are finally free of troubles. Harvest has come and gone. Wounds are healing. All those who have caused the Peckers trouble are behind bars. A knock at the front door late on Halloween night changes everything. Shots ring out. Cole remembers little else when he wakes on his houseboat the next morning, bound to his bed. A man from his past, a man who calls himself the Fifth Horseman of God, has escaped from prison with plans to take Cole all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. When Cole uncovers the Fifth Horseman's plans to bring about the end of the world, escape no longer remains an option. A battle of wits months in the making builds as the two travel in search of an artifact that wields tremendous power. With each mile of river traversed, with dangerous allies helping the Fifth Horseman along the way, Cole's sanity slips a little each day, but Cole holds on to one certainty. To save the world, Cole knows that one of them will need to bleed.