A remote cabin nestled in the snowy mountains, the perfect place to host this year's annual masquerade party. Twenty-three college kids in dresses and tuxedos arrive, giggling and pointing at the unique and innovative masks. A man with devil horns and white porcelain mask is recognized by no one. His costume: the devil in disguise.Norrah, the upstairs tenant of the cabin, hears sudden shrieking, blood curdling screams from the partiers downstairs and rushes down below where she fin...

One type of tragedy mutilates the body. Worse are those that mutilate the mind. How many empty shells of once-normal people might you encounter daily, blind to the ruins behind their prim smiles? If a single moment can scar a mind, can another moment grant redemption?Reflection follows the paths of two relationships—brother-sister and boyfriend-girlfriend. The former having suffered the life-altering tragedy of rape, and the latter leading up to the same impending tragedy. Will the...

Stanford quarterback and rising star Theo Graham used to love fly-fishing in Montana with his father when he was a boy. The fishing trips ended when eleven-year-old Theo met his first crush Carmen. Together they went exploring in Big Sky Country and found an old silver mine to play in. What happened in the mine that fateful day would come back to haunt them as adults. As Theo prepares to enter the NFL draft, his past resurfaces, the consequences dire. Can he keep his dark past a secret?

Mae Clark is a ten-year-old girl with abusive parents and an imaginary friend named Breuer. Breuer has ideas to help Mae, ideas that aren't very nice. Breuer isn't as imaginary as Mae thinks.Tag Baylor is a bartender who writes fiction as a hobby, posting his works on an amateur website. The heroine in his stories is a young woman named Mae Clark. A man claiming to be Mae Clark's husband emails Tag, threatening tremendous bodily harm if he continues writing about Mae. Tag is stunne...

They mystery of the missing twenty-three remains unsolved, even after their return. Paul, the man who organized the masquerade party, has been cleared of any wrong-doing, but Norrah, Jay, and Aaron aren't so sure. They seek to uncover his dark and secretive past. The more they learn, the more they become convinced that he is responsible for what happened.They find a connection between Paul and the man behind the horned mask, one with religious implications that hints at prophecy. T...

A man awakens in a vast desolate wasteland without memory of who he is or how he got there. As he begins remembering, a sobering thought occurs to him: might this be hell? In his travels he recalls the days leading up to his being here, the visions of a black-robed figure encroaching ever nearer, day after day.He chances upon a woman. As they cope with the probability of this being hell, they learn of a stunning coincidence too great to not possess meaning: she is the little sister...

Timothy Stoddard is a shy, stuttering, young boy who meets a girl his age named Arabella. Arabella knows things that haven't yet happened, and performs some neat tricks such as disappearing.On a farm in Nebraska Eddie Verboom unearths a demonic-looking jade idol. Upon touching it a voice speaks to Eddie inside his head, calls himself "The friend behind your eyes," and promises him wealth and power if he does what he says, starting with moving to Sacramento, where reports of the Sac...