Douglas Todt

A dismembered floater is the last thing Northville Detective Dan Gold wants to find on a dreary autumn day. Kelly, a young runaway, discovered a gruesome corpse in the midst of her own suicide attempt. Dan suspects she has further information. Fortunately, Kelly is taken to Jenny's Shelter, a shelter for homeless children run by Dan's old acquaintance Jennifer Collier. Jenny built the shelter with her husband's money and is admired by everyone in the community. Dan finds himself drawn to Jenny in romantic ways. Despite Jenny's marriage and the protests of Gold's partner, Xander Nicholson, the relationship grows deeper. But as the relationship grows, it leads Dan to more bodies, more crimes, and some very unpleasant possibilities about Jenny's real work. Aided only by Xander and the children at the shelter, Dan works through layers of secrets, deceptions, and half-truths to discover why his town is full of corpses.

In 1776, torture magician Sylvester Starnes crossed the wrong woman and became cursed with immortality. He lost his powers and was forced to wander early America as he came to terms with his new condition.As years passed, he changed and matured, becoming a force for good. He stopped the invasion of Quafara and Elkrod in 1812. In 2014, he became Director of Special Operations, the division of the government that deals with the paranormal. The head of field operations, Sam Grant, never trusted Sylvester. After all, a killer contained is still a killer.Meanwhile, with Gary Hart's cabal defeated, Ops still has to find the one member who was not killed on site, Little Jack McGrath.Finding Little Jack leads to a confrontation between Sam and Sylvester as Sylvester either makes his power play . . . or acts to save the world.With Sam's lover, Meredith Patience, caught in the middle, the team is focused on their own conflict and oblivious to a much greater evil waiting in the wings.

Special Operations is the government's division that deals with the world of the paranormal. And in that world, well, abnormal things happen.This is how, for example, Ops agent Meredith Patience winds up trying to stop a tornado from tearing up Springfield, Illinois.But other situations are much more complex and much more traumatic. One such situation is about to be faced by newcomer Kahlia Tarkenton as she helps her Ops trainers, the redheaded Searly McTaggert and Chase Meridian, in Illinois.What Kahlia faces will irrevocably change her.And it will also irrevocably change Special Operations.

Joy Delaney is the classic 'other woman, ' the mistress of her boss at his security firm. Her life isn't really going anywhere. Neither is Ops' paranormal agent Chase Meridian. Ever since a recent combat trauma, she's been compelled to humiliate herself with another woman. Neither is Mary Richardson, the only telepath in the world, who realizes she can't catch the serial killer called the Ghost, but can't come to Ops for help either.Yet once all three of these women seek out change, dramatic events happen that dramatically alter the state of Special Operations forever

Since their return from Hell, elemental channelers Geneva Kane and Tripper O'Sullivan have dealt with the experience in different ways. Geneva returned home to Maine to be with her family and heal. Tripper returned to his detective agency in his native Tupelo, Mississippi - and pretended nothing ever happened.Thus, Geneva's love for Tripper, discovered during their escape, is unrequited. But the attack on Tripper by a mysterious paranormal named Little Jack McGrath changes this. Geneva is attacked as well, but that's a distraction to enable Little Jack to finish off Tripper. With Tripper's life in the balance, the Ops team learns of the Sixteen, a group of voodoo magicians that are jilted children of the late Doctor Voodoo. Ops has battled three members of the Sixteen before and barely survived. How can they escape the force of the full family unit?

Waking up naked and chained in the forest of Wyoming is never a good thing, even if you're the kind of person into that sort of thing.But this is what happens to Special Operations agents Chase Meridian and Searly McTaggert one warm October morning. And they aren't the only ones. The Neutrals, a band of paranormals that unofficially work with Ops, and Kahlia Tarkenton, a trainee, are also kidnapped. The eight agents are split into four pairs of two.It's all an experiment devised by a long time Consortium member and opponent of Ops, Doctor Robert Kosar. But that's not the only objective. No, another opponent of Ops thought long dead is using this distraction to try and take out the Director of Special Operations, Sylvester Starnes, a.k.a. the Immortal Man.Being naked and afraid isn't the problem for Ops. The danger to their leader is.

Eighteen months ago, geometric channeler Tripper O'Sullivan of Tupelo, Mississippi, and his paranormal partner, elemental channeler Geneva Kane of Maine, were ambushed in Siberia by the alien named Blue Square. They were bathed in light and vanished.Where did they go?Special Operations, the division of the government that investigated the paranormal, had found no trace of them. It was likely they were dead, but given they simply vanished in the light, there was also the chance they were still alive . . . somewhere.Well, they were.In Hell. For Geneva, a Christian, this is the ultimate shock. But for Tripper, it seems an inevitable consequence of his failure as a child to save Caroline, his best friend, from being raped and murdered. He ran away that night, and in many ways had been running away ever since. But Hell . . . is a bit different than Dante pictured it centuries ago. And there's a reason for that.Once Geneva discovers the reason, she realized the terrible danger she and Tripper face . . . not only for themselves, but all the denizens of Hell.