Erik: 1534 books

An alliance of evil. An army of demons. All in a day's work for Hell's bounty hunter Being Hell's bounty hunter was never a job Christopher wanted. Most days he wishes he had never opened the Book and inherited the job of Hunter of Lost Souls. Once a typical college student, he now spends his...

When his son dies in a terrible accident, Malcolm retreats behind the walls of the fort his son built, but those walls were more than a child's game, they served a purpose. When monsters begin showing up he realizes that when you hide behind walls to keep out the bad, you must always leave a door...

The relentless ticking of a clock as time slips away marks the breathless pace of these remarkable stories. In Fiction River’s third edition of its Pulse Pounders series, these sixteen authors push the envelope of the thriller form. From a man desperately searching for his missing little girl to...

A big mistake. A quest for revenge. Now Hell has a new bounty hunter. It was all a big mistake. Christopher Sawyer never wanted to be Hell's bounty hunter, and he was pretty sure Hell didn't want him for the job either. But mistake or not, he is now the master of the Book and Blade and charged...

A big mistake. A quest for revenge. Now Hell has a new bounty hunter. Hell is the ultimate prison and only the most powerful, the most cunning can escape eternal damnation. One being is in charge of dragging escaped souls back to the infernal realm. He is called the Beast. And he has...

« Les moustiques viennent de la nuit des temps (250 millions d'années), mais ils ne s'attardent pas (durée de vie moyenne : 30 jours). Nombreux (3 564 espèces), volontiers dangereux (plus de 700 000 morts humaines chaque année), ils sont répandus sur les cinq continents (Groenland inclus). Quand...

Set up in his trendy Dupont Circle condo, devouring all the perks of A-list society, and impressively navigating the intricate machinations of top-level politics, young Ben Krause seems to have it made. The fast-rising speechwriter for the newly inaugurated Charles Sheffield, Ben is living the ideal...

Events in Los Angeles, New York, and the Bay Area Emmy-nominated writer Possible mentions by Maureen Dowd, Jim Lehrer, Sally Quinn, and many more—these folks all mentioned Erik's previous titles in their columns and on the websites they write for Appearances as the Bay Area...

A mansion, an empty safe, and a murdered couple. For Major Crimes Sergeant Brad Braun, it’s the first day back in the field after taking a bullet. The second that Braun steps foot on scene, he banishes any thoughts of this being a home invasion gone wrong. Whoever entered the home appears...

For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social...

Australian Aboriginals taught themselves thousands of years ago how to build a sustainable society in our fragile landscape. In a unique collaboration, a Swedish knowledge management professor finds out from an Aboriginal cultural custodian how they did it, and what we can learn from them. We are consuming...

From the author of The Hinge Factor comes a thrilling, page-turning series of dramatic historical re-creations revealing how the fate of humankind has often been decided by the uncontrollable, unpredictable power of weather. From the doomed campaigns of the Roman legions and Napoleon to the fate of...

Driving down a dark road his car dies. The winter chills him. The nearby graveyard seems to call out to him. But it isn't the graveyard or the cold he has to worry about. Something much worse is calling for this lone traveler who just wants to get home.

This short story is the prologue to my novel "The Dark Trek Home". A father and son out fishing. Quality time from the first cast, the morning is perfect...for awhile. Chaos ripples across the pond and the two find themselves fleeing for their lives. Nothing makes sense. What...