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David Hobbs, vacationing with his wife Miriam, inadvertently stumbles upon a small cloth keepsake bag and a broken tooth. A human tooth. Miriam begs David to hand the bag and tooth over to park officials, but he ignores his wife’s pleas and secretly keeps the "harmless" items. The action opens a doorway that had been closed for nearly a hundred years and unleashes hell on Earth, or at least hell in the lives of David and Miriam.

Sebastian Radu is an unusual kid… perhaps the most unusual kid presently living in America. That’s because he’s a one-hundred-thirty-year-old warlock who looks all of eighteen. Born to a Romanian family of witches, whose lifetimes often extend beyond six hundred years, the Radus have long been at war with another family of similar dark gifts, the Mateis. When the Mateis step up their efforts to wipe the Radus from the face of the Earth, Sebastian and his family flee Chicago and head south to the quaint and quirky town of Denmark, Tennessee.

David and Miriam Hobbs celebrate their fifteenth anniversary in Gatlinburg, unaware that a violent wraith, Allie Mae, will follow them home on a determined quest for vengeance. Having survived this harrowing experience, David's new friend, John Running Deer, unwittingly aids the desecration of an ancient burial site while recovering Allie Mae's remains from a sacred Cades Cove ravine. What John hoped would be the final gesture of peace in giving her a proper burial turns out to be a terrible mistake.

The death and destruction wrought by Teutates, along with Allie Mae McCormick's deadly rage against David Hobbs and his family in Tennessee and Colorado, has almost been forgotten. The renowned "lovers' lane" ravine in the heart of Cades Cove rests quietly below moonlit skies at night, and John Running Deer can once again enjoy the seclusion of his Smoky Mountain residence - almost.

After being sentenced to a purgatorial world known as Bajenie, for the crime of falling in love with a sworn enemy’s daughter, Sebastian Radu is finally allowed to return home to Twin Magnolias. Filled with the hope of somehow reuniting with his beloved Daciana Matei, Sebastian soon discovers that what he assumed was merely a two-month incarceration has turned out to be fourteen months. It’s now September the following year... and much has changed in Denmark, Tennessee, as well as throughout the world. Especially, in the realm of practitioners of magic.

William Barrow carries a dark secret. A very dark secret. An archivist for the Smithsonian Institute and a part-time operative for the CIA, no one would ever suspect the handsome "30-ish" William is the most reviled human being ever to walk the Earth. His infectious warmth and sense of humor make such an assertion especially hard to believe. But long ago, William Barrow had another name…one that is synonymous with shame and betrayal: Judas Iscariot.

The first three Nick Caine adventures including, Temple of the Jaguar: Nick Caine is a part-time archaeologist and full-time antiquities thief-looter. And a very good one, too. So good that he catches the attention of the beautiful Marie Da Vinci, who offers him the chance of a lifetime: to locate the legendary Ciudad Blanca. The lost White City. A city purportedly filled with riches beyond belief. Against his better judgment, Nick agrees to help...and soon finds himself on a trail into the unknown.

On a secret military base tucked in a remote desert mountain, a dangerous machine lies hidden from the American public. Known as the Actuator, this machine is capable of transforming entire communities into alternate realities. In theory, these often terrifying realities are reversible. The scientists in charge of this machine employ operatives called Machine Monks, who attune their minds to manifest single ideas from the realms of fantasy and science fiction.

Free of the threat of Viktor Kaslow, William Barrow (a.k.a. Judas Iscariot) is tantalizingly close to finally having the life he has dreamed of with Beatrice and Alistair. But such optimism is short-lived. An ancient menace far worse than Kaslow has successfully tracked William and Roderick to Virginia after hunting the pair for nearly five hundred years. Hailing from the older kingdoms of Europe, this new threat once gained notoriety as the cruelest tyrant in recorded history: Vlad Tepes, better known as Vlad the Impaler.

Legends say the gold belongs to the famed goddess, Sekhmet. But a map belonging to Nick Caine says otherwise...at least to Nick. He has returned to Egypt to claim the treasure, along with Ishi, Marie Da Vinci, and an old friend of her father's, Akiiki Mubarek.

After briefly eluding Yassir Ali's ruthless assassins in England, Nick, Marie, and Ishi have fled north, where they hope to track down a forgotten cavern in the Highlands of Scotland. The cavern is linked to the Ambrosius Amulet, and is said to contain the greatest treasure of gold, jewels, and other artifacts ever amassed by the ancient druids....

William Barrow (aka Judas Iscariot) is faced with one of the most important decisions of his two-thousand-year stay on Earth. Should he leave well enough alone and seek a quiet retirement, having retrieved the first twenty-eight of the original thirty coins of silver paid to him for betraying Jesus Christ? Or should he press on to recover the last two shekels and find out if it is enough to redeem his soul before Almighty God?

Emmanuel Ortiz holds an ancient and dark secret... His real name is Judas Iscariot. Forced to walk the earth as a cursed immortal, Judas’ disguised as Emmanuel does little to ease his eternal loneliness. Having recovered nine of his thirty blood coins, his focus is not yet on redemption for his treacherous role in the betrayal of Jesus Christ. Distractions come easily for the wealthy entrepreneur and occasional sleuth who presently resides in England, 1888. Fascinated by the spate of murders in London’s poverty-stricken Whitechapel, Emmanuel soon realizes the killings resemble others he...

More than a year has passed since shaman John Running Deer and his equally gifted granddaughter, Evelyn Sherman, battled Brigindo and Teutates’ other three siblings in Cherokee, North Carolina. At the time, John and Evelyn prayed this would be it for dealing with violent ancient entities that supersede the normal realm of ghosts and other mischievous spirits. They naively equated the Hobbs family’s return to peaceful lives in Colorado as the end of their own misadventures with the supernatural. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

Nick Caine is a part-time archaeologist and full-time antiquities thief-- a looter. And a very good one, too. So good that he catches the attention of the beautiful Marie Da Vinci, who offers him the chance of a lifetime: to locate the legendary Ciudad Blanca. The lost White City. A city purportedly filled with riches beyond belief. Against his better judgment, Nick agrees to help...and soon finds himself on a trail into the unknown. And close behind is someone who will stop at nothing to beat them to the prize. Nick Caine, of course, has a few surprises up his sleeve.

A quiet town plagued by restless spirits. A centuries-old magician who won't stay dead. A warlock forced to face the darkest legends of his past. Denmark, Tennessee, isn’t exactly known for high drama—but after surviving a brush with Hell itself, Gabriel Radu and his magical family hoped for some well-earned peace. No such luck. When Sheriff Billy McCain shows up in the middle of a summer solstice party, it’s to ask Gabriel about a very peculiar problem: people in comas whose ghosts have been seen wandering the town. The sightings are chilling enough—but when one of these ...

Krontos Lazarevic may be the vilest sorcerer ever to live. He stands in the way of William Barrow (aka Judas Iscariot), finishing his quest to reclaim thirty silver pieces paid to him to betray Jesus Christ. Forced to flee an underground fortress in Abingdon, Virginia, William and his companions end up in the quirky spiritual town of Sedona, Arizona.

Hidden within the deep woods of rural Alabama, along the forgotten southern course of the Black Warrior River, lies an unseen world feared for centuries by the residents of the tiny town of Carlsdale. Only one person has ever survived a visit to this place long enough to tell about it. His name is Jack Kenney.

Nick Caine is a part-time archaeologist and full-time antiquities thief - a looter. And a very good one, too. Now stranded on a small, forgotten island in the southern Maldives, Nick Caine and his ever-faithful sidekick Ishi are thrown into a desperate fight for survival. Seemingly betrayed by Marie Da Vinci, Nick is forced to gamble his and Ishi's very existence on an ancient map. The parchment document promises an incredible horde of hidden pirate treasure.

Much is at stake, and for William, the painful realization that seeking to atone for his most famous sin upon the earth’s stage can’t guarantee lasting happiness.