Bøker av J. Charles Stone

Something strange is happening in the town of Angel's Road. Eerie warnings in black ink appear, children go missing, and scarecrows turn up in odd places. Upon discovering the town's sinister secret, adoptive parents Roy and Jan Ackerman are forced to make an impossible choice involving their daughter: make her "walk through the fire," or allow her to suffer The Martyr's Death - a fate far worse than death itself.This controversial and heart-pounding thriller will have you glued to your seat in terror. Brace yourself for an intense read and find out if you can stomach your way through to the shocking ending!Shut your windows, lock your doors and prepare for the new horror. Welcome home.

Seven years ago, the world of humanity was thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a large comet which carried terrifying monsters, called Zenith, down to the Earth to prey on all life. Fortunately for the humans, a race of beings made of light known as Apex living above the sky descended from the clouds to fight for their protection.In this story, the Vanguard Ilyana has cast aside her former human self in order to fight among the Dead Lotus, one of the Apex army's most competent stealth teams. King Daedelus has gone missing, and Princess Nadine suspects a traitor within Rodenhold's Council. As the tides of war continue to rise, the dark priest Unduzi unveils his diabolical plot to resurrect the Zenith God and unleash its devastation upon all of existence.

Developed under the guise of eliminating the need for capital punishment and lowering prison costs, the Inferno program utilizes a virtual reality headset to fire electrical impulses toward specific areas of a convict's brain in order to distort their perception of time. This phenomenon makes it possible for criminals to believe they've been inside for days or even centuries, even though they might only be wearing the headset for a few hours.Scott Peretti is one such criminal, and after his release he becomes frequently haunted by vivid and disturbing hallucinations, a symptom attributed to PTSD caused by the "prolonged" amount of time inside of the virtual prison. His wife won't talk to him, and his son seems to know something but is too afraid to say it. As Scott's parole under house arrest continues and his state of mind further deteriorates, the questions fill his mind: are the visions somehow real, or is someone leading him on in their own twisted game?

Several years before the story takes place, a large comet fell to the world of humans, and from its crater sprang a variety of terrifying monsters called the Zenith, hell-bent on devouring all human life. Yet soon after, warriors from the sky known as Apex descended to protect humans from the attackers.In the first book, a Vanguard from the Apex army has been given the order by his king to escort a small human girl to a place called the Road of Lights. However, rumors have spread of a Zenith knight with invincible armor guarding the Road at the end of their journey. Find out what happens when the sword that can cut through anything faces the armor that can't be pierced in this exciting new fantasy novel by independent author J. Charles Stone!