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Cross Trail Middle School Chapter 7

“What did you think of Matt?” Amelia asked. “He’s fine,” Bradley replied, turning down his music. “Why?” “No, I mean James.” “He’s a pain in the ass, why?” “He’s nice,” James finally answered. Amelia was silent for a long moment as James watched the car that had been traveling beside them on the highway pull […]

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Cross Trail Middle School Chapter 5

James wrenched away from Matt, his whole body shaking. The club was too loud. The music, which had felt so good just a few seconds ago, drove into his skull and his chest was burning. She wasn’t here, she couldn’t be here, but everything in his body was screaming at him that there was danger […]

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Cross Trail Middle School Chapter 4

Despite his apprehension, James had to admit he was excited about this. He hadn’t gone out and just danced or partied or anything like that in at least a decade. Yeah, he went out to bars with friends, though that had really shrunk down to the team and some cousins over the years. Meredith, his […]

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Cross Trail Middle School Chapter 3

The next morning, James managed to get to the store at six o’clock, just as the shipment of air conditioners was arriving. The man unloading them off the pallet laughed good-naturedly as he handed the first one to James. “Thank you,” James said, setting it awkwardly in his shopping carriage. “You saved my workplace from […]

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Cross Trail Middle School Chapter 2

About ten minutes later, the old, loud, unit was in James’s office window, blocking out the sun and slowly cooling the room. James was in the kitchen with Amelia, making coffee before going into what was going to be a very tight space with the whole team today. “I want to make Madelyn stay in […]

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Cross Trail Middle School Chapter 1

It was eighty-five degrees outside, but in headquarters, it had to be coming up on a hundred. James walked in to start his shift at noon and was tempted to immediately walk right back out as the thick air enveloped him in sticky heat. But he was in charge and if the others were tolerating […]

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Westminster (NCPU15) Author Letter

(Note: This letter contains spoilers for Westminster (North County Paranormal Unit 15), publishing September 5, 2026, as well as previous books in the series.) I already wrote over on Patreon about my preteen love of all things Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So I won’t go deep into that over here. But it was exciting to […]

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Pinewood Corner Kitchen Chapter 25

The knock at the front door startled Gabriella, who immediately wondered where she’d left Ricky’s paintball gun. It wasn’t Adele, of course not. And not just because she’d probably fled the country, but because the shadowed figure on the other side of the frosted window was far too large to be her. But Gabriella wasn’t […]

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The Northern Worcester County branch of the Foundation for Paranormal Research is one of the organization’s top investigation and cleanup teams. So when a case comes in involving a century of mysterious disappearances, they figure they’ll be done before their lunch break is supposed to end. Investigators James and Amelia go to the site while their coworkers remain behind. But in seconds, Amelia vanishes in the cursed house and the others are forced to find her with no help from their bosses. Will they be able to get her back or will the house claim one final victim?

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