World of Shadows

2025 Storytrade and 2025 Penmasters Global award winner for Fiction: Horror

A killer stalks the shadows. A detective dances on the edge. And the only thing more dangerous than the truth... is desire.

Detective Sarah Murphy always believed in logic, evidence, and justice. But when a string of inexplicable, bloodless murders hits the city, her...

After his unbelievable encounter in the Paderborn forest near Wewelsburg Castle (“Wewelsburg” from Tendrils In the Dark), Captain John Hartman of the OSS finds himself convalescing in Allied hands. Plagued by nightmares, he must convince his superior officer that Heinrich Himmler is up to something terrible while also trying to understand...

The war is over, and Major John Hartman has left active duty. He and Sergeant Margie Bywater have gotten married and are looking forward to the next stage of life, come what may.

But rest doesn’t come easily to heroes when Colonel Spivey, formerly of the OSS and now CIA, appears unannounced to recruit the newly married couple into America’s new...