The Ghost of the Rock
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 28510 words.
Published on May 17, 2013. Fiction.
A dangerous search for diamonds on an island with a history of murder and insanity leads Sutton De Berg and her adopted older brother Gerard Brach to remember feelings they suppressed years ago.
Location: United States
Member Since: July 08, 2011
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S.K. Epperson
Biography
S.K.Epperson is author of numerous novels, novellas and a collection of short stories, The Vision and Other Tales. Brother Lowdown, published by St.Martin's, was nominated by HWA for Best First Novel. Other works include bestsellers Borderland, The Moons of Summer, and The Neighborhood.
Pseudonyms include S.J. Strayhorn (Black Night) and Dylan Harson (Kansas Blue)(Abilene)
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Pseudonyms include S.J. Strayhorn (Black Night) and Dylan Harson (Kansas Blue)(Abilene)
Would like to express appreciation to those fabulous readers who sprinkle liberally with stars and say such nice things! Thank you!
Check out THE GOOD DEED, a twisty short on audio file: https://soundcloud.com/evan0421/the-good-deed
Where to find S.K. Epperson online
Website: http://www.skepperson.com
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Books
The Coffin Ship
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 20280 words. Published on May 10, 2013. Fiction.
A woman and her two young daughters on a ship filled with starving, dying Irish emigrants encounters a bigger challenge than an unknown future in America when she is faced with saving the life of two people: the captain's wife, and a recalcitrant English lord fleeing a murder charge.
Price: $0.99 USD. 20280 words. Published on May 10, 2013. Fiction.
A woman and her two young daughters on a ship filled with starving, dying Irish emigrants encounters a bigger challenge than an unknown future in America when she is faced with saving the life of two people: the captain's wife, and a recalcitrant English lord fleeing a murder charge.
The Bind
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 19490 words. Published on April 23, 2013. Fiction.
Centuries ago, an ancient alchemist's taste for young girls saw thirteen-year-old Lura Cartaun fleeing for her life. When he catches her, the old monster gives her a choice. Generations later her descendants are still trying to undo the curse placed upon them.
Price: $0.99 USD. 19490 words. Published on April 23, 2013. Fiction.
Centuries ago, an ancient alchemist's taste for young girls saw thirteen-year-old Lura Cartaun fleeing for her life. When he catches her, the old monster gives her a choice. Generations later her descendants are still trying to undo the curse placed upon them.
On The Mountain of the White Monkey
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 20370 words. Published on April 10, 2013. Fiction.
A golden-throated Brit and his sidekick cameraman try to survive an exclusive gala for the devil's daughter during the Annual Convention of Witches and Wizards in Catemaco, Mexico.
Price: $0.99 USD. 20370 words. Published on April 10, 2013. Fiction.
A golden-throated Brit and his sidekick cameraman try to survive an exclusive gala for the devil's daughter during the Annual Convention of Witches and Wizards in Catemaco, Mexico.
The Tiger's Spring
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 73420 words. Published on September 14, 2012. Fiction.
Simon and Terra struggle to define just what they mean to each other after a dark truth is revealed and death comes to call. The sequel to Brother Lowdown.
Price: $3.99 USD. 73420 words. Published on September 14, 2012. Fiction.
Simon and Terra struggle to define just what they mean to each other after a dark truth is revealed and death comes to call. The sequel to Brother Lowdown.
Borderland
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 90620 words. Published on September 4, 2012. Fiction.
With the help of womanizing friend Nolan Wulf, widower Vic Kimmler packs up his bags and his two little girls and hits the road to take over a stud farm on the Colorado border. What no one told him is that it's haunted, and a town full of maniacs wants him to take over where his father left off.
Price: $3.99 USD. 90620 words. Published on September 4, 2012. Fiction.
With the help of womanizing friend Nolan Wulf, widower Vic Kimmler packs up his bags and his two little girls and hits the road to take over a stud farm on the Colorado border. What no one told him is that it's haunted, and a town full of maniacs wants him to take over where his father left off.
Brother Lowdown
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 73720 words. Published on September 3, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Three people with dark pasts meet when a drifter called Brother Lowdown comes to town. Simon Brith is a detective known for his intense reactions to females. Terra Donlevy is a cosmetics heiress who eschews anything feminine and harbors a violent abhorrence of most men. The oddly beautiful but twisted Brother Lowdown will target both in his terrible need for justice.
Price: $3.99 USD. 73720 words. Published on September 3, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Three people with dark pasts meet when a drifter called Brother Lowdown comes to town. Simon Brith is a detective known for his intense reactions to females. Terra Donlevy is a cosmetics heiress who eschews anything feminine and harbors a violent abhorrence of most men. The oddly beautiful but twisted Brother Lowdown will target both in his terrible need for justice.
Kingsley Calendar's Experiment in the Field
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 15550 words. Published on July 15, 2012. Fiction.
A determined billionaire takes people from refugee camps in the poorest areas around the globe and brings them to the U.S. to live in a grand humanitarian experiment that finds him strung from a tree, bloodied by the Taliban, haunted by an albino African witch then kidnapped by a homeless man with a tattoo on his butt that reads 'No Embalming'.
Price: $0.99 USD. 15550 words. Published on July 15, 2012. Fiction.
A determined billionaire takes people from refugee camps in the poorest areas around the globe and brings them to the U.S. to live in a grand humanitarian experiment that finds him strung from a tree, bloodied by the Taliban, haunted by an albino African witch then kidnapped by a homeless man with a tattoo on his butt that reads 'No Embalming'.
The Bear
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 9160 words. Published on July 13, 2012. Fiction.
A man steps out of a building and into another time, where a fort is under siege from a plague and his task is to destroy the future from 1918 forward, if he can muster the will...
Price: $0.99 USD. 9160 words. Published on July 13, 2012. Fiction.
A man steps out of a building and into another time, where a fort is under siege from a plague and his task is to destroy the future from 1918 forward, if he can muster the will...
Nightmare
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 82580 words. Published on July 11, 2012. Fiction.
When you're rich you never have to worry about being well taken care of, but when you're rich and mentally ill, well, sometimes you're just taken care of...
Price: $3.99 USD. 82580 words. Published on July 11, 2012. Fiction.
When you're rich you never have to worry about being well taken care of, but when you're rich and mentally ill, well, sometimes you're just taken care of...
Satyr's Graze
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 76230 words. Published on July 11, 2012. Fiction.
In half-hearted collusion with a neighbor desperate to find a runaway husband, architect Etta Baxter agrees to vacation on the mid-California coast in the sleepy town of Satyr's Graze, where she steps into a magnificent stone house with a monster on the outside in the form of a gargoyle and discovers there might be a monster lurking on the inside as well.
Price: $3.99 USD. 76230 words. Published on July 11, 2012. Fiction.
In half-hearted collusion with a neighbor desperate to find a runaway husband, architect Etta Baxter agrees to vacation on the mid-California coast in the sleepy town of Satyr's Graze, where she steps into a magnificent stone house with a monster on the outside in the form of a gargoyle and discovers there might be a monster lurking on the inside as well.
The Neighborhood
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 82670 words. Published on July 7, 2012. Fiction.
Sometimes you wish you knew more about your neighbors, but the moment you find out what you thought you wanted to know, you realize you're going to need more locks...and a stronger stomach.
Price: $3.99 USD. 82670 words. Published on July 7, 2012. Fiction.
Sometimes you wish you knew more about your neighbors, but the moment you find out what you thought you wanted to know, you realize you're going to need more locks...and a stronger stomach.
Green Lake
by S.K. Epperson
Price: Free! 88850 words. Published on July 7, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 4 reviews)
Suddenly widowed and penniless Madeleine Heron is forced to move into her sister's vacation cabin on rural Green Lake, next door to taciturn Native American conservation officer Eris Renard. Instead of the peace and solitude she hopes to find at the lake Madeleine finds herself witness to depravity, blackmail, and murder among the strange residents. And in spite of the danger, she falls in love.
Price: Free! 88850 words. Published on July 7, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 4 reviews) Suddenly widowed and penniless Madeleine Heron is forced to move into her sister's vacation cabin on rural Green Lake, next door to taciturn Native American conservation officer Eris Renard. Instead of the peace and solitude she hopes to find at the lake Madeleine finds herself witness to depravity, blackmail, and murder among the strange residents. And in spite of the danger, she falls in love.
The Slaughters of the Race
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 69620 words. Published on June 15, 2012. Fiction.
In prison the elderly Chung Zhang is Joe Riggin's kindly mentor, but after women start dying upon Joe’s release he realizes Zhang befriended him for a reason. He suspects the plan for his fall is bigger than anyone imagines, involving perhaps his own goverment. Unexpected help comes in the form of cool British restaurant owner Hester Haley and the unlikeliest ally of all, a cop who believes him.
Price: $3.99 USD. 69620 words. Published on June 15, 2012. Fiction.
In prison the elderly Chung Zhang is Joe Riggin's kindly mentor, but after women start dying upon Joe’s release he realizes Zhang befriended him for a reason. He suspects the plan for his fall is bigger than anyone imagines, involving perhaps his own goverment. Unexpected help comes in the form of cool British restaurant owner Hester Haley and the unlikeliest ally of all, a cop who believes him.
Black Night
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 81440 words. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction.
Some crimes are too horrible to forget, and some just keep happening over and over again. In a town where a frontier military fort was once converted to an orphanage for destitute children, dark deeds took place. A woman who lived there has come back to face down the ghosts that torment her but when her daughter falls for the ex-con next door she realizes the past is about to repeat itself.
Price: $3.99 USD. 81440 words. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction.
Some crimes are too horrible to forget, and some just keep happening over and over again. In a town where a frontier military fort was once converted to an orphanage for destitute children, dark deeds took place. A woman who lived there has come back to face down the ghosts that torment her but when her daughter falls for the ex-con next door she realizes the past is about to repeat itself.
A Deep Red Gold
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 17850 words. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction.
A death row inmate with only days to live is recruited by the FBI to obtain information from a wealthy, arrogant Egyptian believed to be behind the murders of several hundred women across the border.
Price: $0.99 USD. 17850 words. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction.
A death row inmate with only days to live is recruited by the FBI to obtain information from a wealthy, arrogant Egyptian believed to be behind the murders of several hundred women across the border.
The Vision And Other Tales
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $4.99 USD. 100500 words. Published on April 24, 2012. Fiction.
A collection of tales by the author of Brother Lowdown, Borderland, The Moons of Summer, The Neighborhood and Green Lake. Join in for the mysterious happening in The Vision and stick around until the final gasp of The Last Secret.
Price: $4.99 USD. 100500 words. Published on April 24, 2012. Fiction.
A collection of tales by the author of Brother Lowdown, Borderland, The Moons of Summer, The Neighborhood and Green Lake. Join in for the mysterious happening in The Vision and stick around until the final gasp of The Last Secret.
Betsy Klausmeyer's Cellar
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 10830 words. Published on December 15, 2011. Fiction.
A memory triggered by the sight of a birthmark in the shape of Texas causes a man to remember a place blocked from his mind since he was five years old.
Price: $0.99 USD. 10830 words. Published on December 15, 2011. Fiction.
A memory triggered by the sight of a birthmark in the shape of Texas causes a man to remember a place blocked from his mind since he was five years old.
The Moons of Summer
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 80170 words. Published on October 27, 2011. Fiction.
A reporter and a female police officer try to stop a small town mortician who has decided to help his finances along by creating business for himself.
Price: $3.99 USD. 80170 words. Published on October 27, 2011. Fiction.
A reporter and a female police officer try to stop a small town mortician who has decided to help his finances along by creating business for himself.
Dumford Blood
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $3.99 USD. 85130 words. Published on October 20, 2011. Fiction.
Small towns have the dirtiest secrets, and the secrets in Dumford, Kansas are dirtier than most...and bloodier.
Price: $3.99 USD. 85130 words. Published on October 20, 2011. Fiction.
Small towns have the dirtiest secrets, and the secrets in Dumford, Kansas are dirtier than most...and bloodier.
The Rift
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $2.99 USD. 21980 words. Published on October 9, 2011. Fiction.
Life takes a surreal turn for those aboard crashed Flight 759. Captain Sena Wincott and First Officer Ben Harding are ex-lovers working together to save passengers and crew, including Scotland Yard's Aran Caine, sent after a pair of killer brothers he may be willing to free once he realizes what's actually happening, because these brothers have a particular skill that may help keep everyone alive.
Price: $2.99 USD. 21980 words. Published on October 9, 2011. Fiction.
Life takes a surreal turn for those aboard crashed Flight 759. Captain Sena Wincott and First Officer Ben Harding are ex-lovers working together to save passengers and crew, including Scotland Yard's Aran Caine, sent after a pair of killer brothers he may be willing to free once he realizes what's actually happening, because these brothers have a particular skill that may help keep everyone alive.
Curse of the Alastor
by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 22680 words. Published on October 9, 2011. Fiction.
Angelo Merona is tired of waiting for Marti Zaroni to realize she loves him. Marti, devoted to science, is infuriated by the manly Angelo. Trouble is, a demon has plagued their families for centuries and while Angelo need not worry because of his rare green eyes, everyone else is fair game, including rich Uncle Zito, his ward Goran and the brave boy Lee who helps Marti escape cruel abductors.
Price: $0.99 USD. 22680 words. Published on October 9, 2011. Fiction.
Angelo Merona is tired of waiting for Marti Zaroni to realize she loves him. Marti, devoted to science, is infuriated by the manly Angelo. Trouble is, a demon has plagued their families for centuries and while Angelo need not worry because of his rare green eyes, everyone else is fair game, including rich Uncle Zito, his ward Goran and the brave boy Lee who helps Marti escape cruel abductors.
Darker Matters
by S.K. Epperson
Price: Free! 13050 words. Published on September 4, 2011. Fiction.
Grieving cousins Griffin and Flynn Littleton discover their lost guardian had an important role in keeping their town free of the horror that descends upon his death. Bad things, terrible things occur with escalating intensity and they soon realize they need help. Enter physicist Elsa Maplethorpe, her reporter son Jordan, and ex-husband, Episcopalian priest Jonas, a.k.a. the Right Hand of God.
Price: Free! 13050 words. Published on September 4, 2011. Fiction.
Grieving cousins Griffin and Flynn Littleton discover their lost guardian had an important role in keeping their town free of the horror that descends upon his death. Bad things, terrible things occur with escalating intensity and they soon realize they need help. Enter physicist Elsa Maplethorpe, her reporter son Jordan, and ex-husband, Episcopalian priest Jonas, a.k.a. the Right Hand of God.
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