The Joe Kieran Series
Joe Kieran is a newspaper reporter with a past and now a future . . . but one that might just cost him his soul.
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Covenant (The Joe Kieran Series #1)Author: Everson, John |
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The 2004 Bram Stoker Award winner for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. (tie) Joe Kieran has found that unearthing the truth for a newspaper can be painful, and telling it, heartbreaking. Hiding from his past big city exposes in the quiet coastal town of Terrel, he stumbles upon a web of mysterious teen suicides that somehow connect a ring of five women. Is there really a malevolent presence inside Terrel Cliff that holds all of the town in thrall as Angelica, a fortune teller, suggests? Or is there a murderous covenant between five women to sacrifice their first-born? When Angelica is kidnapped right under his nose, Joe suspects that there is more at work in Terrel than a dark, tragic streak. Deep beneath the remains of a long-demolished lighthouse on its tragic cliff, Joe discovers Terrel’s secret history and salvation. And in his desperate bid to save two women, he forges a new covenant, one that puts his own soul in deadly danger. |
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Sacrifice (The Joe Kieran Series #2)Author: Everson, John |
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Ariana is on a killing spree. Dressed in a black vinyl catsuit, she lures men to hotel rooms, where they will leave their bodies behind—in multiple pieces. That’s the part of the story that the newspapers know. The “Sunday Slasher,” as she’s dubbed for her habit of leaving behind a corpse every Sunday morning, doesn’t just have a wealth of misanthropic bones in her body. She’s also got a hunger for ultimate power and control. Through ritual sexual sacrifice, she aims to open the door between this world and the domain of the powerful, but violently perverse Curburide demons. She will be their queen, and they will rape the world. Joe Kieran is a young reporter who has just left the East Coast port town of Terrel with a demon on his back. Literally. Having forged a covenant with the demon, Malachai, to save the lives of two women, he now has a constant invisible companion, albeit one who is less than trustworthy. When Joe picks up Alex, a teen hitchhiker on her way to the Rocky Mountains, he soon finds that he’s been setup by Malachai. Alex is more than just a perky runaway; she has the ability to talk to ghosts, something her right-wing parents forced her to hide. But now she will need that talent more than ever; as Malachai sets them all on the path that can only lead to . . . Sacrifice. |
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Summary:
Title List:
1. Covenant
2. Sacrifice
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