When a violent car crash into a remote mountain lake claims the wife and daughter of Cole Danner, he is left alone, badly injured, and suicidal. Strangely obsessed with his wife and daughter's grave stone inscriptions and overcome by violent sense-assaulting flashbacks of the accident, Cole begins a dangerous and bewildering quest to unlock the potential truth of the fate of the two loves of his life - at the risk of losing his own. A teenage girl regains consciousness to find herself wearing strange clothes in the remote mountain home of the backwards family Honeycutt. Thought to be the ten-years-dead daughter of the family matriarch, Cora, she becomes immersed in a bizarre, off the grid "community of faith" called Royston. A disturbing introduction to the family and the violent psychotic breaks of Cora unlock a sinister past - and the realization that escape is her only chance for survival. Tense, gritty, humorous, and fast-paced, Ghosts of Royston is the story of a girl's survival, a father's devotion, and the colliding forces of life and after-life.

By day, Harper Cole trades commodities over the internet from his isolated Mississippi farmhouse. At night, he is systems operator of E.R.O.S., an exclusive, sexually explicit on-line service that guarantees total anonymity to its rich and famous clientele. But now someone has penetrated E.R.O.S.'s state-of-the-art security...someone who has brutally murdered six celebrated women. Each time, the weapon and the city are different. And each time, the killer has claimed the same horrifying trophy. For Harper Cole, who has suddenly become the prime suspect, there is only one way to lure the elusive madman into the open. But Harper Cole has dangerous sexual secrets of his own. His daring plan will place everything and everyone he loves in the path of a brilliant, unstoppable killer...