A hidden disease stole my childhood and very nearly ruined my manhood. At age 6, I watched my parents have sex after violent fights. Having intercourse at age 11 and by 15, was a sexual predator. My life was filled with violence, and alcohol. During one especially traumatic day, both my father and uncle were murdered. As my father stabbed his youngest brother, that same brother shot him. After years of growing closer and closer to her, the name I give to the lust and sexual desire that almost drove me insane, I hit my bottom in a North Carolina penitentiary, for killing the husband of my lover. I could have gone on to live a life of bliss, pushing the nightmare I had lived deeper and deeper into the closets of my soul. Instead, I purposely went back to that dark place of memories and recorded the events that tell a story of ruin. How lust took the life of a talented young man to quench her insatiable desires.

The electrifying conclusion to the IGNITE THE SHADOWS SERIES. Since The Takeover, Seattle belongs to the Eklyptor government. Human sovereignty has been lost and I’m working undercover, surrounded by enemies. But even in the darkest times, I can’t give up hope for a cure against this evil. Seattle must break free and lead other cities to regain their freedom. I can’t lose hope in our kind. We will shatter this darkness and return light to the world if it’s the last thing I do.

Brutal Sexual Abuse. Fear. Betrayal. Shame.

Easy Street, USA. Tricia Gleason figures it originated in Frisco, Colorado. No fuss, no sweat, no worry: the combination for a smooth summer. All set to be a summer intern minister following her first seminary year, she would not be challenged as she was to read Sunday worship scripture, teach church youth to fly-cast and visit hospitals when asked. That changed with one sentence, Tricia, forgot to tell you, but my wife and I are leaving Frisco for the summer; youre in charge. She could only stare. You cant be serious. The minister was. Before she could think or count to ten Tricia is THE SUMMER MINISTER IN FRISCO, COLORADOto preach each Sunday, to coordinate all church activities and handle any surprise events. She wonders if she and her fly rod will ever have a relationship. The surprises are like fire-crackers exploding. Happens fasta church college student is arrested for armed robbery of a 7/11, is harassed at his university and then disappears. A couple in the church are found, deader than dead according to the county sheriff. Figures it is murder/suicide. Church members rant Tricia only works three hours a week on Sunday morningscan never find her during the week. The minister comes back earlier than he said, but not to take over. Comes back to defend sexual misconduct charges. And, as Tricia learns, that isnt even a glimpse into other ways of ministry. The county sheriff and detective ask her help. They know she has solved murders before. Shed rather put on a fishing hat but it doesnt happen enough. Soon discovers no suicide but a double-murder. Tricia has hunches but they are a cul-de-sac, leading in circles. When the who murdered this couple is learned, down deep Tricia isnt sure. And then, the one arrested states, Do you think I did this by myself? Well, folks, guess again. Tricia thought it was musing about another. She was wrong. So wrong. And, in it all she never finds Easy Street in Frisco, Colorado.

“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his own. In the grip of writerly self-doubt, Jeff turned to images, taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram, writing short, true stories that bloomed into documentary. During those two years, he spent a lot of time on the road: meeting strangers working night shifts as he drove through the mountains to see his father; exploring the life and death of Charley Keunang, a once-aspiring actor shot by the police on LA’s Skid Row; documenting gay pride amidst the violent homophobia of Putin’s Russia; passing time with homeless teen addicts in Dublin; and accompanying a lonely woman, whose only friend was a houseplant, on shopping trips. Early readers have called this book “incantatory,” the voice “prophetic,” in “James Agee’s tradition of looking at the reality of American lives.” Defined by insomnia and late-night driving and the companionship of other darkness-dwellers—night bakers and last-call drinkers, frightened people and frightening people, the homeless, the lost (or merely disoriented), and other people on the margins—This Brilliant Darkness erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?

Easy Street, USA. Tricia Gleason figures it originated in Frisco, Colorado. No fuss, no sweat, no worry: the combination for a smooth summer. All set to be a summer intern minister following her first seminary year, she would not be challenged as she was to read Sunday worship scripture, teach church youth to fly-cast and visit hospitals when asked. That changed with one sentence, "Tricia, forgot to tell you, but my wife and I are leaving Frisco for the summer; you're in charge." She could only stare. You can't be serious. The minister was. Before she could think or count to ten Tricia is THE SUMMER MINISTER IN FRISCO, COLORADO...to preach each Sunday, to coordinate all church activities and handle any "surprise events." She wonders if she and her fly rod will ever have a relationship. The surprises are like fire-crackers exploding. Happens fast...a church college student is arrested for armed robbery of a 7/11, is harassed at his university and then disappears. A couple in the church are found, deader than dead according to the county sheriff. Figures it is murder/suicide. Church members rant Tricia only works three hours a week on Sunday mornings—can never find her during the week. The minister comes back earlier than he said, but not to take over. Comes back to defend sexual misconduct charges. And, as Tricia learns, that isn't even a glimpse into other "ways of ministry." The county sheriff and detective ask her help. They know she has solved murders before. She'd rather put on a fishing hat but it doesn't happen enough. Soon discovers no suicide but a double-murder. Tricia has hunches but they are a cul-de-sac, leading in circles. When the who murdered this couple is learned, down deep Tricia isn't sure. And then, the one arrested states, "Do you think I did this by myself? Well, folks, guess again." Tricia thought it was musing about another. She was wrong. So wrong. And, in it all she never finds Easy Street in Frisco, Colorado.