About This Book
Dark Tales contains the following four novels, all of which can be purchased separately in the Kindle store: The Book of the Dead, Blood and Blackmail, The Book of Dreams, and The Dark Side of the Moon. In the space allowed, I will give brief descriptions of these novels, but if you would like more complete descriptions, you can obtain them under the separate listings for each book. In The Book of the Dead, a woman interested in psychic phenomena begins to hear a man's voice. He insists that she write down everything that he is about to tell her and that his motive is "to lift the veil of ignorance that surrounds death." The voice is from a man named Daren Slade, and he begins his narrative with the futile attempt he made to save a drowning woman…later, he goes to his 25th high school reunion and reconnects with his high school sweetheart, Savannah Cross…that night, they begin a drive that will take them from Atlanta, Georgia to the outskirts of Raleigh, North Carolina. Along the way, they are involved in a car crash from which they miraculously escape…to a diner where the waitresses are a bit beyond bizarre…to a dream that Daren has where a holy man stabs him through the heart…to a restaurant where their waitress is talking about committing suicide…and back to the river where Daren attempted to save the drowning woman. Here, he encounters… Blood and Blackmail: Jesse Barnett is confident his girlfriend Justine didn't murder Trent, her ex-husband, because he never heard any gunshots on the night the two of them broke into Trent's house to search for obscene photos that he had taken of Justine's daughter. However, Jesse's confidence in Justine's innocence begins to waver when he is told that the murder weapon, which was found near Trent's bed, had a silencer attached to it. Justine is arrested, and after she rejects a plea deal, the prosecutor charges her with first degree murder. The trial is an odd one, principally because it features Vanessa Evans, the daughter of Trent by a previous marriage. Vanessa describes herself as a pathological liar, and after taking the oath to testify truthfully, she immediately begins to say a number of things that leave everyone wondering who really committed the murder. This includes the members of the jury who take six days to reach a verdict. Murder mysteries come in many forms—as do dreams. In the Book of Dreams, Detective Shane Manning has a troubling history when it comes to his dreams because many of them are nightmares that often seem to find their way into reality. This was especially true when he was younger--the dream he had back then was something that would haunt him for years. And now, fifteen years later, he's investigating the murder of a college student, but he can't seem to get away from his dreams. Like the one where he is seduced by another detective, or the one where his wife finds out about his affair and shoots him to death. Welcome to The Book of Dreams. But beware: The dreaming world is not for the faint of heart nor does it conform to standard solutions, trite explanations, or the so-called logic of this world. The Dark Side of the Moon: Carolyn Black, a twenty-five year-old high school teacher trapped in an unhappy marriage, is attracted to Kevin Snyder, a sixteen-year-old student in one of her classes. Kevin is shy and reclusive and doesn't seem to realize that Carolyn is attracted to him, but on a cold March day, everything changes when they make love in the back seat of Carolyn's car. Two weeks later, Carolyn discovers that Kevin is involved in drugs. But when she tells Kevin that she is ending their relationship, he shocks Carolyn by threatening to commit suicide. Later that night, Carolyn changes her mind about Kevin and desperately searches for him before he has a chance to harm himself. When she finally finds him in his car behind an abandoned house, he is holding a gun to his head. And then…
