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The most terrifying monsters are real and walk among us every day. Meet Lance Belanger, he has only one ambition, to be the most infamous killer of all time. After murdering a single mom and her toddler child, Lance indoctrinates himself into the world of serial murder. Before long, the bodies start turning up all over the country. Each victim is incapacitated by a puncture wound to the spine, then, while still alive, they are dismembered, their arms, legs, and head are severed from the torso.

Splinter of Asgard is the story of Torval, a Norse youth of 16 who dreams of the high-seas adventurous Viking life of his father, brother, and uncle - but fate has limited him to being an apprentice shipwright. That all changes when Torval awakens an age-old magic and must accept the responsibility for returning a lost relic to Asgard - home of the gods, from where it came.

Having abstained from killing for almost a year, the Highwayman is coming unglued. Unsure if the FBI is watching, Lance Belanger spends his days and nights in a paranoid malaise, longing to kill again. Meanwhile, in Bucharest, Romania, an Interpol raid leads to clues and a witness who can identify the Highwayman. Armed with new evidence, newly promoted SAC FBI Agent, Dave Maxwell heads for Bucharest, as his team of investigators redeploys their investigation on their original suspect, Lance Belanger. It would appear, the net is closing.

Times are desperate and the buffalo are nearly hunted out when Cil'mi discovers the gems hidden in Piper Harris's old coat. While they head to California to sell them, Sloan's team takes on a band of hard-fighting bank robbers hiding in the high mountains of Colorado. Shooting erupts as both groups - law and lawless - meet their destiny on the western frontier. (This is a sequel to Outlaw.)

Successful in driving the demon, Malik, from his mortal shell, though at great personal cost, Torval and his cousin, Asta, and their friends learn they must travel to the Western Lands and retrieve a magic talisman with which they can destroy Malik once and for all. For one the Western Lands hold no allure, for a debt is owed and payment - long overdue - is required. Nevertheless, leaving their homeland and new friends, the travelers brave unpleasant conditions and deadly confrontations as they make their way west.

Having retrieved the promised talisman that will drive Malik’s spirit from Midgard, Torval, Asta, and their friends return to the Northlands to prepare for the final confrontation with the Outworld demon. Along the way, old acquaintances are reunited, while others are lost, requiring those remaining to band together and complete the quest demanded by the gods: return the splinter of Yggdrasil to the Rainbow Bridge and heal the tree of life.

After coming home, a bitter love affair then causes Toby to answer Roosevelt's request for help with the plight of American missionaries in China, and they become engulfed in the Boxer Rebellion. Never forgetting his dream of owning a horse ranch, Grounds afterward returns home to Eastern Montana. He ekes out a sparse existence for himself and his family by becoming a bounty hunter - an occupation as deadly as his battles in the various wars America fights during T. S. Grounds' gripping story.