All Things Lead to the End Quintet

ALL THINGS LEAD TO THE END Quintet

Published between 2017-2019 

Each title was Limited to 44 signed and numbered copies, each containing the title novella and each containing an addition short story or two, please see below.

BAY'S END

What does it take to ruin a perfectly good summer? Four cherry bombs. When twelve-year-old Trey and his best friend Eddy play a prank on Officer Mack, the resulting chain of events rocks the small town of Bay’s End. Today, Trey Franklin is a man haunted by his past. Tormented by that one tragic, fateful summer, Trey searches for catharsis the only way he knows how – by writing. A tale of love and loss, bittersweet memories, and the depths of human evil. Welcome to Bay’s End.

Also contains the short story 'Worlds Greatest Dad'

THE SOUND OF BROKEN RIBS

Lei Duncan has it all: the ideal life, the perfect career, a loving husband. What more could someone ask for? It is with this in mind that Lei takes her morning run, oblivious to everything ahead.

Belinda Walsh has lost it all: her home, her husband, her mind. She thought she knew Dan, but one phone call changed all that. Now everything she’s known to be true is a lie. It is with this in mind that she goes looking for something—or someone—to destroy.

When the lives of two strangers intersect, something will be born of the connection. For one of these two souls, the truth of the world will shift and morph into something powerful and dangerous. A darkness of the mind, a tear in sanity.

And something will peek through that darkness, beckoned by the sound of broken ribs.

Also contains the short stories 'Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind' and ' Something Else'

THE BEDDING OF BOYS

Regina Corsi is a monster, the vilest of predators. Her desire for young boys is only matched by the bloodlust that overcomes her once the sex is finished. But she’s grown hasty in her hunting. And only a special friend can keep her disturbing appetites a secret.

Nevada Barnes is fourteen, and, emotionally speaking, still very much a child. When his stable home life is thrown into turmoil by an unexpected visitor, he escapes into the arms of an older woman, where he will find his own desire growing stronger each and every day.

In the small town of Bay’s End, Regina and Nevada dive head first into a relationship doomed for disaster, a sex-fueled madness neither will be able to satiate. But Regina’s special friend is impatient and will not be distracted by their constant coupling. It will feed, whether Regina wills it to or not. For the bedding of boys has consequences that reach far beyond the legal ramifications of her actions.

When Ghost is hungry, only death will do.

Also contains the short story'Cinder Block'

EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE NOW

When a local boy witnesses Father George’s brutal death, Sheriff Harold “Hap” Carringer (Bay’s End) is tasked with crowd control. All the while, the citizens of Bay’s End are at war with their own inner demons. They put their trust in a man who wasn’t entirely trustworthy, and will suffer collectively, as well as individually.

After his parents are murdered, newly-orphaned Pete Blackwood returns to the town of his birth to become a ward of his grandmother Beulah. But, like Father George, Pete’s grandmother has skeletons in her closet. Big, nasty skeletons, hell-bent on revenge.

Over the course of three blood-soaked days, Bay’s End will come to terms with its terrifying history and suffer the consequences of its actions. Something will reawaken, something that will not sleep until its hunger for revenge is satiated, if it can be satiated at all, because…

EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE NOW

Also contains the short story 'There Were Other Versions Of Us'

NO HOME FOR BOYS

All things lead to the End. And this is the end.

Also contains the short stories 'A Sound That Haunts' and 'Popsicle'