Rob Scott – författare

Nerak is defeated. Steven Taylor has cast the malevolent dictator''s soul into the Fold''s inky void - but the evil that controlled Nerak and brutalised the people of Eldarn has escaped, and taken Mark Jenkins with it. Steven must put his own feelings to one side, for Eldarn''s fate still hangs in the balance, and he remains the land''s only real hope.As he and his companions make their way across country, rallying what remains of their allies, Mark, no longer the affable teacher from Colorado, disappears into the foothills of the Blackstone Mountains, determined to excavate the Larion spell table and use its awesome power to destroy Eldarn.During an epic sea journey to the enemy strongholds of northern Malakasia, Steven discovers he is stronger than he thought, but a confrontation with Mark is inevitable ... Is Steven willing to kill his best friend and face eternal exile in Eldarn to save two worlds from annihilation?Return to Eldarn for this towering finale, where our heroes face a terrifying army of mutated beasts, and the mysteries of the Larion Senators are waiting to be unlocked, for good or for evil ...

Samuel ''Sailor'' Doyle has transferred from Vice to Homicide in the Virginia State Police. He has a mistress, an alcohol problem, a prescription drug dependency, and a burgeoning self-loathing that alienates his wife and family.On Friday 3 July, the rookie investigator is assigned to a double homicide on a rural farm some 15 miles outside Richmond. One of the victims has been interred in a makeshift tomb, while the other is stuck half-in, half-out of a hope chest overflowing with cat litter. And the farm is covered with dead bodies: dozens of cats, sheep, goats, cows, and one dead horse. The mentally handicapped daughter of the victims, Carl and Claire Bruckner, is missing.Doyle soon discovers that Bruckner was a Marine captain who lost his leg in Vietnam thanks to the incompetence of his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake - now retired General Robert Lake, and Republican Party presidential hopeful, who will be speaking in Richmond on July fourth - the following evening. What Doyle fails to realise as he follows the various clues is that wherever he goes, he is spreading disease - and not just any disease, but Yersinia pestis. The plague.Is the dead Marine planning revenge, even from beyond the grave?

A thrilling police procedural with supernatural elements, for fans of Patricia Cornwell, John Connelly and Stephen KingTen weeks ago, Homicide Detective Sailor Doyle worked his first solo case, a gruesome double murder in a remote farmhouse in Virginia. And things turned very nasty for him ...Now Sailor is recuperating with his family at a beach house in Belmar, on the New Jersey shore. He''s struggling with prescription drug withdrawal while trying to build up his shattered shoulder and leg, and he''s also trying to rebuild his shattered relationship with his wife. Jenny, while pleased he''s alive, is less enamoured with the idea of reconciliation. Seeking refuge in a century-old beachfront resort hotel, Sailor meets an elderly man, Mark "Moses" Stillman, a former minor league baseball player whose wife and daughter drowned in the ocean off Belmar years earlier. Sailor''s having nightmares about his previous case, and when he starts seeing things again, he realises that once again he''s being guided to the truth ... even if it''s not what he wants to hear. And it''s not long before he finds himself investigating those deaths.

Steven Taylor is an assistant bank manager in a quiet little Mid-West town; his roommate Mark Jenkins is a high school history teacher. Steven''s bored with his job; the thought of going through all the accounts that haven''t had a single transaction in the past 25 years sounds even more boring - until he discovers one old prospector left $17,000 in October 1870; it''s now worth 6.3 million dollars. There''s a safe deposit box too, 17C, that''s never been opened in all those years.And it would have remained closed if Steven hadn''t been browsing through a Denver antique store: as well as a dresser for his sister, he found a new girlfriend, Hannah, the owner''s daughter ... and, in a jar of oddments, the long-missing key to Idaho Springs Safety Deposit Box 17C.And without that key, he''d never have found the tapestry that sucked him and Mark into the land of Rona in the strange new world of Eldarn, where they are immediately captured by a group of Ronan resistance fighters. Rona has been occupied by Malakasia for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. Now an evil tyrant rules the land, but he wants more: he wants the key that will open the path for an ancient evil to manifest once and for all.And Steven and Mark need this same key if they are ever to get home to Idaho Springs ...

The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn''s North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek''s key it is a worthless slab of granite - and Lessek''s key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked on the night they fell through the far portal into Eldarn.Retrieving the key and freeing Eldarn''s people rests with Steven Taylor, the would-be sorcerer from Colorado, who is racing across America with Nerak, the fallen Larion dictator, hot on his heels. Steven must reach Idaho Springs and find Lessek''s key before it falls into Nerak''s hands and is lost for ever - and with it, the lives of untold millions, in both of Steven''s worlds.