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Alone in the year 1911 and stranded in London, John Decker searches for Mina, whom he fears is trapped in the past along with him. Instead, he finds the precursor to CUSP, an organization known as The Order of St. George. And when he does, it raises more questions than answers. Agreeing to help the Order, Decker arrives in the tiny hamlet of Mavendale to investigate, where he finds an abandoned workhouse shuttered decades before, a history soaked in blood, and a malevolent entity looking for victims.

After a tumultuous year, the last thing on John Decker’s mind when he and his fiancée, Nancy, arrive on the tropical island paradise of Singer Cay, is the Bermuda Triangle. He’s about to marry the woman he loves, surrounded by friends and family. A well-earned break and a dream destination wedding. But Singer Cay hides a dark and mysterious past. There’s the abandoned resort on the far side of the island, where another bride vanished on her own wedding night 100 years ago, during a storm that blew up out of nowhere.

Crimson Deep: Deep in the Florida woodlands, a pair of recreational divers are attacked and killed. Miles away, a research team captures an impossible sight on their remote-operated submersible. Meanwhile, a team of bank robbers speed toward their Florida hideout. As deaths mount, ex-sheriff John Decker is called from a much-needed vacation by a longtime friend, to help a baffled police department track an impossible enemy.

In a tunnel deep beneath an Alaskan mountain, a man is brutally murdered. Just one in a series of grisly deaths, it is not long before whispers grow that the Qalupalik, a terrifying creature born from centuries of superstition and fear, has come to wreak havoc on the small coastal town of Shackleton, Alaska. With no way to stop the slayings, the town turns to disgraced ex-cop John Decker, hoping he can do what they could not.

John Decker left Wolf Haven, Louisiana, to escape the memories of his troubled past, believing he would never return. But after 20 years working for a big-city police department, he suddenly finds himself back in Wolf Haven, taking the reins as town sheriff. Expecting to spend his time dealing with the trivialities of small town life, he instead finds a vicious killer picking off the residents one by one. Scrambling to find answers before anyone else dies, Decker stumbles across an age-old superstition, a terrifying creature conjured from the depths of hell to seek revenge.

In the last months of World War Two, the German Navy premiered a new and terrifying weapon: a submarine of incredible range that could strike anywhere, anytime. And it did, prowling the shipping lanes night and day, striking fear into the Allies. It was just what Hitler needed to turn the tide of war. Until it disappeared without a trace. Now, more than seven decades later, the wreck of a previously unknown U-Boat has been found off the South American coast. A submarine so well-preserved that it shouldn’t exist. Something has survived in the empty sub. A dark and terrifying presence.

The first two books in the John Decker series, and the John Decker prequel novella, Soul Catcher.

Deep in the Florida woodlands, a pair of recreational divers are attacked and killed. Miles away, a research team captures an impossible sight on their remote-operated submersible. Meanwhile, a team of bank robbers speed toward their Florida hideout. As deaths mount, ex-sheriff John Decker is called from a much-needed vacation by a longtime friend to help a baffled police department track an impossible enemy.

In the dense and dangerous Amazon, the crew of the supernatural reality series Cryptid Quest makes a stunning discovery: a Bronze Age fortress of Mayan design, hidden by impenetrable jungle and far from where it should be. But that’s not all. They also find tantalizing evidence of Egyptian and Greek influence - an impossible collision of ancient cultures that leaves them baffled. Then, without warning, they disappear without a trace.

They are found huddled together in a frontier mineshaft. Three mummified corpses sitting near a vein of gold so rich it would have made them wealthy. Yet, they never tried to leave. Instead, they sat down and starved to death rather than walk out. When Robyn Miller inherits her father's share of an old ghost town in Nevada that has been in the family for generations, she decides to pack up and make a new life by creating a one-of-a-kind wedding venue and tourist attraction.

Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a work crew restoring a Mayfair home makes a shocking find: a secret basement room walled up since Victorian times. The Whitechapel murderer's lair. And inside, a corpse that has waited in silent darkness for over a 100 years.

A terrifying force unleashed on the Irish countryside. Under a ruined monastery near the quaint village of Clareconnell, a labyrinth of caves hides a dark secret. The remains of Grendel. Defeated by Beowulf and entombed there by the Danes, he has remained hidden for 1000 years, guarded first by warriors, then by monks, and finally by the villagers themselves. But nothing stays lost forever.

A submarine of incredible range that could strike anywhere, anytime. And it did, prowling the shipping lanes night and day, and striking fear into the Allies. It was just what Hitler needed to turn the tide of war. Until it disappeared without a trace. Now, more than seven decades later, the wreck of a previously unknown U-Boat has been found off the South American coast. But something has survived on the empty sub. A dark and terrifying presence.

There's something wrong with Willow House. When author Andrew Whelan and his children, teenager Sarah and 10-year-old Jake, move from Boston to a house in the country, they think it will be a new start. Grieving the loss of his wife in an auto accident the year before, Andrew hopes that the rural setting will help bring them together again and finally allow them to heal. But the old house hides a terrifying secret, an injustice perpetrated long ago during the time of the Salem witch trials. A restless spirit haunts Willow House, a supernatural force with one thing on its mind.

In New York City, Homicide Detective John Decker arrives at a brutal crime scene. A man has been tortured and murdered in his own house, a sprawling mansion on the Upper East Side. But this is no ordinary home invasion. Nothing has been taken, and there appears to be no motive. Until beautiful Egyptologist Emma Wilson shows up with an enigmatic letter penned by the victim.

Life can change in the blink of an eye. Just ask Hayden Stone. One minute he’s on his way to visit his brother in New York, the next he’s running for his life. Previously normal people are becoming mindless killers, at least, those that don’t vanish into thin air. Worse, there are other things out there, frightening things that should not exist. Thrust into a world in which nothing works, no phones, no internet, no cars, Hayden, and a ragtag group of dazed survivors must pull together to achieve the impossible. Survive.