β Scribed by Jason Halstead
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Book 1 of the Dark Earth series
Eric's dreams were shattered when his wife was taken from him by a reckless driver on a snowy Alaskan road. All that remained was his newborn daughter, Jessica. Uprooting to provide a safer life for his child, Eric moved back home to northern Michigan.
Thirteen years later with Jessica raising the bar in everything she does, darkness returns to the Baxter's life in the form of a crazed gunman. Surviving the assassin and seeking answers, Eric has to dig into the secrets of an unbelievable past hidden between the pages of history.
Check out Devil's Icebox, the second book in the Dark Earth series.
"Fast paced - interesting - heart wrenching." - Diana Oswald
"With a mix of Celtic myth, werewolves/changelings, witches, and secret organizations that protect the world as warders, you will get a wonderful mix of fantasy and fairy tale." - Cana
Dark Earth practically flew off of my fingers. I used to spend a few weeks every year as an over-imaginative child in Michigan's upper peninsula, right where much of Dark Earth takes place. That made the setting something I've been wanting to right about for many years, I just need a character who had a reason to be there.
Finding that character was easier than I expected, I only had to tap into that inner father persona I'd never really dug into before. My own daughter was very young at the time (toddler age), and I was still learning a lot about what that meant since she was our first. It was pretty easy to imagine how I'd feel and what I'd do as she got older though, and that's what turned Eric into the man that he was.
Now I'm not saying I'd be anywhere near the character Eric is, but I'd like to think I could come close. After all, don't we all want to be a hero?
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