Enter the Worlds

In her wildest dreams it never occurred to nine-year-old Korii Castellanos that another dimension could actually exist outside of Earth. During a temper tantrum, Korii inadvertently cracks open a massive geode — and discovers all too soon that there is life in a dimension other than ours. She races against time to save her mother, encountering mystical creatures and the evil Krystal King Falhovian, who wishes her dead. Only the beginning of an amazing adventure that spans seven novels.

Korii flees toward the eastern village of Lapelian with the wretch Falhovian rapidly bearing down on her — his sole intention, to kill her and steal her powerful essence. Korii and her friends barely escape with their lives as the monarchs and mages of Krystaland rally to harbor them within Lapelian's walls. But something goes horribly wrong, and Korii finds herself trapped outside Lapelian just as the entire village disappears before her eyes.

The long-awaited third installment of the Krystal Kracker has finally arrived. Korii and her companions set out to thwart the increasingly vile attacks of Falhovian, who will stop at nothing to see her dead. The Shritening will not disappoint.

Falhovian has escaped — and returned for ultimate revenge on twelve-year-old Korii and the whole of Krystaland. King Saphun and his Monarchs and Mages must battle a universal evil seeking to destroy the Axis. Darkness and mutinous souls would commandeer the famed ghost ship, the Shadow Shallop, using Korii and her friends as catalysts to a catastrophic implosion. Will the Monarchy prevail?

Thirteen-year-old Korii is on the brink of rebellion. Trapped in isolation, she forms an unlikely alliance with her imprisoned half-brother, Falhovian — and treacherously releases him from his dungeon cell. Krystaland is plunged into chaos as Korii is manipulated and kidnapped, thrust into a gripping adventure through a portal in the Icelandic town of Vik. A coming-of-age tale of teenage rebellion, magic, and the fight against darkness.

They thought the nightmare was over. Then Tistan emerges from the shadows — more ancient, more calculating, and far more dangerous than Falhovian ever was. He intends to seize the power beneath Krystaland itself, awakening a force capable of consuming every living essence in the kingdom. When Saphun is captured and the monarchy is driven into open rebellion, Korii must become the leader her people need. How much of herself can she sacrifice to save a world that may already be doomed?

Some debts are written in blood. Some games never end until someone dares to knuckle down. In 1862, on the blood-soaked hills of Perryville, two estranged brothers met across enemy lines. Whatever dark tragedy unfolded in the battlefield smoke birthed a vicious family curse — and an unfinished game echoing across generations. Over a century later, Gertrude Evans is drowning in grief following the line-of-duty death of her police-officer husband. Her fragile world shatters when the remains of Butch Stivers — a childhood bully who vanished into the limestone hollows after a terrifying 2001 playground marble match — are unearthed in Bardstown, Kentucky. When Gert's heirloom blue Bennington shooter flares with unnatural heat and a friend's twelve-year-old son disappears near the excavation, the nightmare resumes. To save an innocent boy from centuries of inherited rage, Gert must descend into the fractured caverns beneath Foster Heights and confront the restless spirits of Perryville. When the dead call the game, who will be left standing?

A taste of mystery. A blink of horror. A journey into a historic battle as a participant. Angels who must play horseshoes to win their freedom. A marble game to settle a dispute is the mandate of a future time. Halos for Horseshoes and Other Short Stories is a captivating collection with eclectic genres — each story a world of its own.

From the beginning of time, mankind has expressed his deepest emotions through the arts. Mountain Pondering is not simply a bit of poetry — it is the first installment of a collection of life, of joy, of illness, of war, of humor, of spontaneity, of memoir, of desperation, of agony, and of death. Wrath, joy, fear, and pain, penned only to articulate that which drives our passion in every breath we breathe.