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Guardians

Trey Collins is your typical nerdy, kind of dorky, teenager. Trey has trouble talking to girls and problems with bullies.

The girl he loves doesn’t know 
he exists, and the BBOC (Big Bully On Campus) takes particular delight in tormenting him.

​Trey is different from the average, normal, teen in one way: he is obsessed with 
vampires. He would like nothing better than to be a vampire.

On Halloween night, Trey 
learns the meaning of the old adage: Be careful what you wish for! 

Set on the campus of Cumber Academy, an all-boys prep school in New England that is about to go co-ed, Guardians is a tale about the ultimate temptation: immortality, and a young man’s quest to be more than he’s ever been before.

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Candy Stripes

Candy Stripes is the first young adult/teen thriller by renowned horror writer, R. Patrick Gates, to see publication in the U.S. Author of such classics as Grimm Memorials, 
Grimm Reapings, and Tunnelvision,

Gates has created a knock-down, drag-out, non-stop thrill ride, pitting a young girl, a candy stripe volunteer at the local state hospital, against a madman. 

Sally is only on her third day of volunteering at New Jersey State Hospital when a super-storm blizzard/hurricane hits. Sally is delivering flowers to the psychiatric building when 
the power fails, trapping her there.

When a madman mistakes Sally for someone else, she must use all of her wits to survive. Candy Stripes is a page-turner that will not disappoint. 



Print Length: 101 pages
Publication Date: August 10, 2014
Kindle eBook

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Ghostland

1967. The Summer of Love. The last living member of the Specter family disappears from the family estate, to be known thereafter as Ghostland. 

Fast-forward nearly 50 years: Best friends Cory and Haley share a love of music and are in an all-girl rock band together. Living near the abandoned Specter Estate, they also share a keen interest in the rumored-to-be-haunted Ghostland. While investigating reports of odd goings-on at the estate, something strange happens to Cory... 
Where did she find that weird, silver 45 rpm record? Why must she play it on Halloween at exactly 6:06 p.m.? It's up to Haley to discover her secret and save Cory before time runs out. 

Can these rocking-n-rolling BFFs save the day, or will the evil force of the Specter Estate silence humankind forever? Find out in GHOSTLAND

Publication date:: July 23, 2015
Kindle eBook

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Mystery Hill

The story of a young boy, his stepsister and her friends who must battle an ancient evil under Mystery Hill--a strange place of ancient ruins inspired by America's Stonehenge in Salem, New Hampshire. 

When Jennifer Day, her stepbrother, Kevin, and their recently married parents move to a new town and a new home nestled against Mystery Hill, little do they realize the entire town is riddled with tunnels leading to, and from, massive caverns under Mystery Hill . . . caverns that have not been disturbed for centuries until a scientist, Dr. Fassbinder, started excavating the ruins, blasting through man-made rock walls thousands of years old. Now something moves freely beneath the town, through the cellars of the houses. Something that is lonely . . . and very, very hungry.

Publication date: July 22, 2015
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