L V Gaudet

Step back in time to learn the secret behind the bodies in Where the Bodies Are in this disturbing look at the boy who will grow up to create the killer.1981Meet David McAllister, the boy who will grow up to create the killer.In 1981 there was a man who lived on a farm. William McAllister was a private and reclusive man who, above all else, did not like to have attention drawn on his family.He wanted only to be left to mind his own business and family and for the world to do the same. But that very reclusiveness fosters contempt and suspicion in the people of the small farming community his family has called home for generations.William McAllister has a son, Jason McAllister. Jason is a troubled boy. Growing up under his father's strict rules and isolated from the normal childhood relationships, he is left to explore his darker inclinations. Seeing the darker side of Jason, William tries to rein his son in by bringing him into the family business.Just then a serial killer starts preying on local young women. The McAllisters quickly find themselves drawn into the spotlight when the town decides William McAllister is the killer. As the town's search for the killer focuses on the McAllister farm and the woods behind it, the threat to the McAllister secret grows.The McAllister family history is as dark as the secret hiding in the woods. The attention is a threat to both William McAllister's profession and his family. He has no choice but to find the killer himself. He might not like what he learns.

Travis discovers his newest get rich quick scheme in an abandoned riverboat. Dreaming of the wealth and glamour she will bring, he becomes obsessed with rebuilding her.Darius sees only rot, decay, and their ruination in the old boat. Travis's best friend and unwilling business partner, Darius is unwilling to abandon Travis to his fate. He is committed to seeing it through, regardless of the costs to himself.Struggling to rebuild her together, they are pitted against everyone from the Shipbuilders' Union to the even more ruthless local casino boss, who desires to possess the Gypsy Queen himself.As Travis and Darius's lives become further intertwined with the Gypsy Queen, the strange accidents surrounding the boat escalate. Under the Gypsy Queen's spell, Travis is oblivious to the sense of dread that fills those who enter the boat as she awakens with a hunger for blood. The Gypsy Queen's dark past will not be forgotten.

Garden Grove Meadows, "Where families come to live." A new housing development promises a better future in a growing bedroom community. A project that seems to be the eye of a storm of strange events. Plagued with vandalism, the work crew poisoned, altered blueprints, and human remains intentionally planted for the crew to find.Who is trying to stop the development?Includes short story Old Mill Road

Step into the twisted mind of a serial killer in this disturbing psychological thriller.Dead bodies are being left where they are sure to be found. But, the killer made a mistake; one victim left for dead survived.Kept in a medically induced coma while she recovers, they can only watch her and wait for the killer to come back for her.While Detective Michael Underwood protects their only living witness, Detective Jim McNelly and his reporter friend Lawrence Hawkworth are determined to find the killer and bring his killing spree to an end. Instead, they discover a bigger mystery.The killer's reality blurs between past and present with a compulsion driven by a dark secret locked in a fractured mind. Overcome by a blind rage that leaves him wallowing in remorse with the bodies of victim after victim, he is desperate to stop killing.After learning of his victim's survival, the killer sees it as a sign they are meant to be together. Threatening her tenuous grip on life, he is determined to take back his prize while he continues kidnapping and murdering young women.Accustomed to a life of abuse, one victim's experience becomes her refuge in a desperate bid for survival.Instead of killing her, he keeps Katherine Kingslow imprisoned in the dark while he continues plotting to take back the Jane Doe in the hospital. How long can Kathy survive and will she lose her own mind?The search for the killer will lead to his dark secret buried in the past, something much larger than a man compelled to kill again and again.

Step deeper into the twisted mind of a serial killer as he slips further into madness in this disturbing psychological thriller.Hunting Michael Underwood follows on the heels of book one, Where the Bodies Are, bringing the first two stories and their characters together as the search for the killer continues.Michael Underwood has vanished and everyone is searching for him. Detective Jim McNelly is determined to not stop until he finds him. Working with the detective, Lawrence Hawkworth is still chasing the bigger story he knows is behind the bodies. Jason McAllister knows he must stop the killer he created before he goes too far. He may be the only one who can stop him.Unable to let go of his barely remembered past and the search for his sister, the killer goes looking for Jason McAllister's past and his family.*****Detective Jim McNelly is furious. Detective Michael Underwood disappeared without a trace with the only living witness to the McAllister murders. Worse, Michael is not who he pretended to be. And then the other shoe fell.Jason T. McAllister, tried and convicted of the kidnapping and murders of multiple women and the prime suspect behind the bodies discovered in the woods behind the McAllister farm, is being inexplicably set free. He will not spend the rest of his life in prison.Jim is determined to find Michael Underwood, bring him down, and discover the truth about who he really is and what his connection to Jason McAllister is.Working with his long time friend, the notoriously unscrupulous investigative reporter Lawrence Hawkworth, Jim will not stop until he finds Michael and the answers to the bodies found in the mass graveyard in the woods behind the McAllister Farm.Jason McAllister knows he must stop the real killer behind the murders he was convicted for. As the killer spirals further into madness, Jason is the only one who can stop him. But, he needs help. He is going to have to talk to his father, William McAllister, the man who taught him how to hide the bodies.Michael Underwood and Katherine Kingslow are on the run. A victim of domestic abuse and only known survivor of the McAllister Farm killer, Kathy has lapsed into Stockholm syndrome. Now she is torn between her need to be with her captor and fear of his escalating psychotic episodes.Everyone is hunting for Michael Underwood. he killer himself. He might not like what he learns.

Sometimes the only way to stop a monster is to kill it. He has gone by many names, but he was raised as David McAllister, and finding what he is looking for is not enough to quiet the darkness inside him.David McAllister must die.While the McAllisters move into hiding, Detective Jim McNelly and his reporter friend, Lawrence Hawkworth, continue to pursue them. Jim and Lawrence split up to follow their own leads, routes that will take them each on their own path to discover secrets behind the McAllisters.Anderson and William are trying to keep the group together and ahead of the detective hunting them while trying to resolve the issue of what to do with David, Kathy, Rose Bheals, and the boy Jason brought, Billy.Kathy is becoming increasingly fearful both for and of David and wants out, but feels trapped. She is certain death is the only way out.Cassie swore to kill David for what he did to Connie and the others. Torn by memories she does not have and the knowledge of the dark hole this life will bury her in, she needs to escape.Sophie has been ordered to kill David and Kathy. She may have to kill her own brother, Jason, too. When the time comes, she's not sure if she can do it.With Marjory's lapses into the foggy confusion of Alzheimer's, nobody believes her when she really needs them to, when Sophie's little girl's life is at stake.David is slipping further into madness and, convinced she is the little sister he lost so many years ago, he is going to take little Lauren with him. Having his now adult real sister, Cassie, there is no help.Will someone reach David and Lauren in time as the blackness closes in and rage takes over?

Stories have been told as far back as stories existed about monsters in dark places. Old Wives' tales to scare children into behaving. Stories kids tell each other with willful glee to see how much they can scare the other.When Nick, Ian, David, and Felicia go wandering in the woods, the kids stumble on something so terrible they are afraid to tell anyone about it. They make a pact to keep it secret. Two days later Nick and Felicia's family vanishes in the night. 12 Years LaterDavid has never forgotten Felicia, the long-legged girl he was forced to spend time with looking after their younger brothers as they roamed the town and surrounding woods.Stuck growing up in that town, David and Ian could not forget that day in the woods that changed their world.Was what they found left by the rumored old Mill Road monster?Nick returns to dig into the past and learn the forgotten childhood memories that still haunt Felicia and him. Right after his return something shocking is found in the woods.Detective Liam Tobin with C. C. I., Cold Case Investigations, comes to investigate the discovery in the woods and the town's dark history.With Nick and Felicia's strange uncle Harvey suspected to be behind the new gruesome discovery in the woods and Nick's return, Felicia is forced to come back to the place where it all began, Havenwood.Everything centers around the old abandoned mill, where the stories of the old Mill Road monster were born.

Garden Grove Meadows, "Where families come to live." A new housing development promises a better future in a growing bedroom community. A project that seems to be the eye of a storm of strange events. Plagued with vandalism, the work crew poisoned, altered blueprints, and human remains intentionally planted for the crew to find.Who is trying to stop the development?Includes short story Old Mill Road

There is safety in pretending a thing is not real. Even when every fibre of your being knows that is a lie. There is safety in forgetting. In a way.You can't escape the dreamTwelve years ago four kids found something in the woods that tore their innocence away. They made a vow to keep it secret. Now, impossibly, someone found it again.The abandoned mill off the old Mill Road has a dark history that has been told for generations, a story about something sinister haunting the woods.Unable to remember the events of twelve years ago and troubled by the haunted look he sees every time he looks at his sister's eyes, Nick has returned to learn what happened when they were kids.Still obsessed with Felicia and Nick's family suddenly vanishing in the night after their childhood discovery, David is determined to get answers from Nick, while his brother Ian tries to temper his obsession.Felicia's return to help Nick will trigger new revelations about the mummified bodies of children appearing in the woods decades apart.

Everyone wants to kill David McAllister in this explosive conclusion.Sometimes the only way to stop a monster is to kill it. He has gone by many names, but he was raised as David McAllister, and finding what he is looking for is not enough to quiet the darkness inside him.David McAllister must die.While the McAllisters move into hiding, Detective Jim McNelly and his reporter friend, Lawrence Hawkworth, continue to pursue them. Jim and Lawrence split up to follow their own leads, routes that will take them each on their own path to discover secrets behind the McAllisters.Anderson and William are trying to keep the group together and ahead of the detective hunting them while trying to resolve the issue of what to do with David, Kathy, Rose Bheals, and the boy Jason brought, Billy.Kathy is becoming increasingly fearful both for and of David and wants out, but feels trapped. She is certain death is the only way out.Cassie swore to kill David for what he did to Connie and the others. Torn by memories she does not have and the knowledge of the dark hole this life will bury her in, she needs to escape.Sophie has been ordered to kill David and Kathy. She may have to kill her own brother, Jason, too. When the time comes, she's not sure if she can do it.With Marjory's lapses into the foggy confusion of Alzheimer's, nobody believes her when she really needs them to, when Sophie's little girl's life is at stake.David is slipping further into madness and, convinced she is the little sister he lost so many years ago, he is going to take little Lauren with him. Having his now adult real sister, Cassie, there is no help.Will someone reach David and Lauren in time as the blackness closes in and rage takes over?

Step into the twisted mind of a serial killer in this disturbing psychological thriller.What kind of dark secret pushes a man to commit the unimaginable, even as he is sickened by his own actions?Dead bodies are being left where they are sure to be found. But, the killer made a mistake; one victim left for dead survived. Kept in a medically induced coma while she recovers, they can only watch her and wait for the killer to come back for her.While Detective Michael Underwood protects their only living witness, Detective Jim McNelly and his reporter friend Lawrence Hawkworth are determined to find the killer and bring his killing spree to an end. Instead, they discover a bigger mystery.The killer's reality blurs between past and present with a compulsion driven by a dark secret locked in a fractured mind. Overcome by a blind rage that leaves him wallowing in remorse with the bodies of victim after victim, he is desperate to stop killing.After learning of his victim's survival, the killer sees it as a sign they are meant to be together. Threatening her tenuous grip on life, he is determined to take back his prize while he continues kidnapping and murdering young women.Accustomed to a life of abuse, one victim's experience becomes her refuge in a desperate bid for survival, finding herself insinuated into the killer's life as something more than a kidnapping victim. She finds a soft place in his heart.Instead of killing her, he keeps Katherine Kingslow imprisoned in the dark while he continues plotting to take back the Jane Doe in the hospital. How long can Kathy survive and will she lose her own mind?The search for the killer will lead to his dark secret buried in the past, something much larger than a man compelled to kill again and again.

Travis discovers his newest get rich quick scheme in an abandoned riverboat. Dreaming of the wealth and glamour she will bring, he becomes obsessed with rebuilding her. Darius sees only rot, decay, and their ruination in the old boat. Travis's best friend and unwilling business partner, Darius is unwilling to abandon Travis to his fate. He is committed to seeing it through, regardless of the costs to himself. Struggling to rebuild her together, they are pitted against everyone from the Shipbuilders' Union to the even more ruthless local casino boss, who desires to possess the Gypsy Queen himself. As Travis and Darius's lives become further intertwined with the Gypsy Queen, the strange accidents surrounding the boat escalate. Under the Gypsy Queen's spell, Travis is oblivious to the sense of dread that fills those who enter the boat as she awakens with a hunger for blood. The Gypsy Queen's dark past will not be forgotten.

Garden Grove Meadows, "Where families come to live." A new housing development promises a better future in a growing bedroom community. A project that seems to be the eye of a storm of strange events. Plagued with vandalism, the work crew poisoned, altered blueprints, and human remains intentionally planted for the crew to find.Who is trying to stop the development?Includes short story Old Mill Road