Private investigator Rennie Avalon's current job seems simple: to find and regain an antique book purloined from the collection of an elderly archivist. But nothing is ever that simple for Rennie. The book in question is no ordinary book: once the property of a high-ranking Nazi official with occult obsessions. The thief in question is no ordinary thief: a white supremacist who'll use any means necessary to accomplish his mission of hate. But Rennie Avalon is no ordinary private eye. Now with dangers looming on a literally apocalyptic scale, will her past experience dealing with the darkness be enough? Unavailable since its first appearance as an online serial in 2002, The Demon Cross is here presented for the first time in one volume, specially edited and revised for this edition. Also included is the first chapter of Brother's Keeper, the next Avalon & Company novel.

An office worker returns from bereavement leave to find his workplace changing before his eyes... A priest excites his village to the greatest show of devotion to their god ever seen... A mortician sees all of his immaculate handiwork destroyed when his clients start rising... These and twenty-seven more tales of the fantastic and macabre will excite your imagination and discomfort your dreams. Contributors: Thomas Allein, Paul L. Bates, Mark Beech, Dan Cavallari, Gemma Files, Milo James Fowler, Eric Francis, A.A. Garrison, S.K. Gilman, Brady Golden, Damien Walters Grintalis, Caitlin Hoffman, Van Aaron Hughes, D.T. Kastn, Bartholomew Klick, James Lecky, Christine Lucas, David McGillveray, Joe Mirabello, Jonathan S. Pembroke, Anthony J. Rapino, Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein, Christopher Slatsky, Frank Stascik, Josh Strnad, Max Vile, Fran Walker, S.M. Williams, Stephen Willcott, Jeremy Zimmerman