Action/Thriller

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The River, "a mile-a-minute potboiler myster[y], is an exciting and terrifying thriller that will make you question your existence and your future.

How far do we go until we’ve gone too far?

The Nahanni River has a history of mysterious deaths, disappearances and headless corpses, but it may also hold the key to humanity’s survival―or its destruction.

Seven years ago, Del Hawthorne’s father and three of his friends disappeared near the Nahanni River and were presumed dead. When one of the missing men stumbles onto the University grounds, alive but barely recognizable and aging before her eyes, Del is shocked. Especially when the man begins rambling about a secret river and time travel. Then he tells her something inconceivable. Her father is still alive!

Gathering a group of volunteers, Del travels to the Nahanni River to rescue her father. There, she finds a secret underground river that plunges her into a technologically advanced world of nanobots and painful serums. Del uncovers a conspiracy of unimaginable horror, a plot that threatens to destroy us all. Will humanity be sacrificed for the taste of eternal life?

And at what point…have we become God?
 
 
 

Excerpt
Del marched forward, determined to find a sign.
Jake’s arm snaked out. “Wait!”
She raised a hand, warding him off, then strode toward the far wall. She made it halfway across the room when the air shifted around her. She stopped.
There has to be something! Schroeder wouldn’t lead us here for nothing.
She stepped forward, between the two strips of crystal.
And something weird happened.
The blue light of the crystals flared…alive.
Jake pulled her back. “Don’t go any closer, Del. It’s not safe.”
His blue eyes pleaded with her, but she shook her head, ignoring him. Her father needed her. She was his only hope. And there was no way on earth that she had come this far only to give up.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Peter heave a frustrated groan. He muttered something beneath his breath, then stumbled between the crystals.
“Peter!”
Frozen with fear, she gulped in a huge breath as two slender trails of metallic sapphire light crawled down the cave walls toward him. The tentacles of light slithered across the floor, colliding at his feet. Inch by inch, they wrapped around his legs, throbbing to the beat of the alarm. Within seconds, he was enveloped in a strange liquid mercury radiance.
“Oh my God,” she whispered.
Peter’s jaw dropped and his eyes widened, terrified. Bit by bit, his entire body disintegrated―each molecule separating, stretching grotesquely. He slowly became…dust.
In a flash, Peter Cavanaugh was gone.
Del knew that there were times when a decision must be made, and made fast―regardless of the possible outcome. A decision of fate. Or destiny.
Catching Jake’s eye, she threw him a beaming smile. Before he could stop her, she stepped between the crystals, welcoming the sapphire light that skimmed icily up her body.
Jake’s mouth opened in horror. “No, Del!”
She dissolved into an infinite number of particles…

Read the first chapter under my 'Stories' section.