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Marshall Drummond has faced many ghosts, witches, and curses. It comes with the territory of being North Carolinas Investigator of the Bizarre. But never before has he been the target. A ghost is haunting him. Worse, his newfound flame, Catalina, is also being visited by an angry spirit. With numerous cases that could tick off the supernatural, Drummond will have a hard road figuring out who is after him and why. And when he finally learns those answers, the fight will only be beginning.

Nathan K - he can hold two souls in his body. If he dies, he loses one yet lives on with the other. As long as he replenishes his second soul, he cannot be killed. Nathan K is immortal. And he’s not the only one. Nathan K’s action-packed adventures continue with three more pulse-pounding novels. His desire to take control of his life has never been higher or more dangerous.

When Leroy Parker discovers a full skeleton in the woods - one with a curse carved into the bone - he calls the only detective who specializes in the strange and unusual - Marshall Drummond. Together, their investigation will take them to something stranger than either ever expected. Something borne out of love but stretched into the bizarre. Because, the bonds of love will happily push beyond the normal and acceptable.

In her short time with the Parallel Society, Roni Rider has faced many deadly creatures and horrifying situations. But nothing haunts her more than her lost time - the large gaps in her memory stolen when she was a child. For Roni, it is a constant reminder the she is incomplete. When a creature from deep within the Caverns reaches out to her, she is set upon a journey that will take her beyond anyplace she could imagine, a journey to find out what was stolen and why.

Marshall Drummond has faced many challenging cases in the past, but nothing could prepare him for taking on a case for his old boss, the chief of police. Caught in a web of lies and secrets, Drummond must figure out why the chief’s wife and maid are being terrorized by an otherworldly being before it returns to kill them all. Then, he has to figure out how to stop the thing.

For Max and Sandra Porter, building a family seemed unattainable. But since moving to Winston-Salem and starting a business with the ghost of a 1940s detective, the unattainable did not sound so far-fetched. Over time, they brought two homeless boys into their work and eventually to their home. But this ad hoc family has a lot of unknown histories. Dark secrets that threaten to crawl to the surface. When one of those secrets breaks through, Max finds himself in a fight - not only for his own survival, but for the survival of his family as well.

As a private investigator in North Carolina, most of Marshall Drummond’s cases involve that other world - the one with ghosts and spells, the one with witches and curses, the one most people never see or want to see. Welcome to the Marshall Drummond Case Files. Stories that explore the dark mysteries and thrilling adventures of 1940s PI Marshall Drummond, before he died and became the ghost detective found in the best-selling Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries.

When Marshall Drummond is called to a local apartment building because tenants are complaining of a ghost, he thinks it will amount to nothing. Turns out, there is a ghost. And when it locks Drummond in the building, he has only one way to get free - solve the ghost’s murder.

In a farmhouse on the outskirts of Winston-Salem, PI Marshall Drummond is hired to help a girl accidentally cursed. But soon, he is in a fight for his life when the girl’s parents prove to be more dangerous than the curse itself. Welcome to the Marshall Drummond Case Files. These stories explore the dark mysteries and thrilling adventures of 1940s private investigator Marshall Drummond, before he died and became the ghost detective found in the best-selling Max Porter paranormal mysteries.

By the early 1930s, PI Marshall Drummond had built up an underground reputation in North Carolina as the man to turn to with cases involving the weird and unexplained. So, it should have come as no shock when a notorious gangster wanted to hire him. Even a Northern gangster. But nothing is ever simple with criminals. What seems like a straightforward haunting reveals a callous crime, one that involves cold murder, shallow graves, and macabre ghosts. One that Drummond finds more and more difficult to get away from.

When a man walks into the Winston-Salem police station wearing only a toga and claims that somebody has stolen his mind, there are two choices - send him to the asylum or call Marshall Drummond, the 1940s' private investigator of the weird and unexplained. The case takes Drummond to hidden parts of the city where he’ll face unnatural people and emptied minds, and he’ll learn firsthand how dark the souls of mankind can be. That is, unless the magic that takes minds away swipes his as well.

As a private investigator, most of Marshall Drummond’s cases involve that other world - the one with ghosts and spells, the one with witches and curses, the one most people never see nor want to see. When his Drummond’s old patrol buddy, Cooper, asks him to handle a current matter in private, he welcomes the idea of a case that does not involve the need for trips to the cemetery or discoveries about how deep the underworld goes. He should have known better.

The Parallel Society returns! Roni and Gram head to Ireland to inspect an open rift beneath an Abbey church. But something is alive inside that rift - something that wants to get out. The Abbey nuns are convinced the rift is a conduit to Heaven, and the thing inside is an angel. But Gram harbors a secret about the rift angel, one that haunts her. And soon Roni will learn that the nuns have secrets of their own.

When Nathan discovers two informants willing to turn against Larkin, his longtime rival, he has a chance to crack open his enemy’s defenses. But nothing is ever simple for Nathan K. An assassin looking to make her name and a secret organization looking to destroy the Immortals cloud matters. Then Nathan’s tech guru inserts herself in the action. That would be difficult enough, but all these warring sides are stuck on a cruise liner in the middle of the Atlantic with nothing but endless ocean surrounding them.

The Bluesman: musician, magician, lethal killer. Thrown into our world from a parallel universe, the Bluesman seeks to save the Earth from being overrun by the horrid, mutated creatures that came with him. Armed with magic, skill, and his companion, Scotch, he faces these monsters hoping to create a peaceful world for all.

For many years, Max Porter and his team have been caught between Mother Hope and Grandma Mobley, two witches that hated each other for over a century. Both witches hold power and both are dangerous. But now, their hatred has finally boiled over, and that power is about to be unleashed. Now, Max finds himself the rope in a tug-o-war that threatens to destroy his budding family, if not all of North Carolina. He will have to risk everything he knows and loves, push himself further than ever before. Because Max Porter will be in the fight of his life. And his death.

When Nathan and Robin are taken against their will, they end up under the thumb of a Colombian drug lord. In order to protect Robin, Nathan is forced to help defeat a rival organization. But his captors can never be trusted. Once they see how powerful Nathan is, they will never let him go. They’ll want him forever.

Nathan K - he can hold two souls in his body. If he dies, he loses one yet lives on with the other. As long as he replenishes his second soul, he cannot be killed. Nathan K is immortal. Against an Immortal Army. After learning how some immortal groups use mortals as slaves and worse, Nathan can no longer sit by. Yet stopping them means war. To take on the Immortals is no easy task. Especially when they have had endless time to study strategy and tactics. Especially because they are willing to let a war stretch out across the shadows year after year for centuries.

When a boyfriend from Sandra’s past hires the Porter Agency to investigate a haunted firehouse, Max and Drummond know there’s going to be trouble. Yet nobody is prepared for the twisted path they embark on. A path that takes them into a harrowing murder, a botched curse, and the rumblings of a witch war. But after Sandra’s life is placed in jeopardy, Max throws off the gloves. To save her, he’s ready to take on the toughest witches in all of North Carolina if he must - nothing will stop him when his love is on the line.

With a year in the Parallel Society under her belt, Veronica “Roni” Rider still feels like an outsider. Relegated to the basement library, she seeks some way to assert herself and find her place. Her chance arrives when she is sent on a mission into the Infinity Caverns to locate mystical stones in a lost universe. But the journey unearths many of the team’s secrets, and the pressures upon them threaten to destroy their fragile group.Then they discover the hellspiders, and all bets are off.