The Giran, the Great Sunken Ones, are one of Earth’s ancient secrets. Nearly as old as mankind, they have existed beside us, been worshiped by us, for years untold. Now two very modern people, Chad Rivers and Brenda Weaver, will discover them. And while one is Hollywood Elite and the other is on the verge of unemployed, they share one thing in common: terror.
Jonas is a man out of luck and out of options. He goes to visit his uncle, hoping for a new start, but winter has already taken the old man. Can Jonas shed his city ways and make hisself fit for the upslope community of Jackson Quarters?
Includes my short story "Pearls Before..." co-authored by Ann Stolinsky.
Judith is an work-from-home office worker. Walter is an unemployed welder. Both of them are involuntary subjects of a horrific experiment because there are people who want humans to acquire the power of keltogenesis.