The characters in the world of A.W. Powers come to him in dreams and when he is mowing the lawn. He can’t decide if he should quit mowing or go into business and mow more lawns. The characters want their stories told and have chosen him to be their mouthpiece. He believes his characters have many of the features he desires but is sadly lacking. Even the bad guys. Powers spends his time failing to understand the behaviors of people, but appreciative of what they do, knowing he couldn’t make it up. No one can. But it’s all material. Fortunately, he spends his time writing, not scratching his head and creating a bald spot.
The Psychic Guardian Angel series arrived in a series of nightmares. Powers recognized the literary value of the nightmares, and the therapeutic value of using them in his writing. If there are any extended streaks of low creativity, like writer’s block or too much fun, the nightmares get worse and will even repeat themselves until making their way into a notebook or file for future use and he is back at the keyboard. Sleep can be difficult enough without having characters and plotlines nagging at you, requiring resolution or exorcism.
Sacrificial Lamb
People are manipulated, controlled, and savagely discarded.
The prayers of a kidnapped woman go unanswered.
Strangers are being sacrificed. Their bodies are clues left for Jacob Daniels.
Daniels had once prevented a woman from being pulled through the doorway to hell. Unable to destroy the door, he buried it. Someone dug it up, defiled the family plot.
The woman is still under the influence of whoever wanted her. She’s waiting for Daniels and believes they’re meant to be together.
But only if he can solve the puzzle that will lead him to her. It’s a deadly game of love.
His abilities are malfunctioning, being blocked. Daniels can’t feel the thoughts, hearts and minds of people he wants to believe are fine. Are they? Are they part of the puzzle he’s struggling to solve? Or have his denials of being psychic manifested themselves and doomed the people he cares about?
How many bloody puzzle pieces will he have to sort through to find the key, end the sacrifices, and make sure the door stays closed?
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Trail of the Gun
John Thompson talks to the dead. They keep talking back.
He lost his sister to a killer and his parents to grief so complete it killed them. What remained, John poured into a paranormal research facility, a quiet mission, and a team of gifted people who refuse to let the past stay buried.
When a gun with a dark history finds its way to them, the psychics discover it carries more than ballistic evidence. Every hand that touched it left a mark, and every mark deserves an ending.
Across the city, a ghost moves through strangers' houses with a single purpose, searching for the one person alive who can see her clearly enough to act.
John's gift may be the only thing standing between a killer who slept soundly for decades and the justice he never saw coming.
Can the dead finally rest, or has too much time passed for the truth to matter? Dive in and find out.
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First Casualty
A reluctant psychic, a missing woman, and vengeance from beyond the grave.
Rachel Thompson is missing, and the police have no leads. The serial killer who has taken her is efficient, elusive, and seemingly invisible.
Her only hope is Jacob Daniels, a man tormented by his second sight.
Jacob is driven to search for his friend in the slim hope that she is still alive. However, that means accepting he must use his gift and ask the spirits for their help.
Assistance from beyond can be a double-edged blade. When Jacob follows the advice given to him, he finds Rachel.
He also finds her killer and becomes his next target.
Jacob fights for his life as he is thrust into a mind-warping maelstrom of vengeful spirits and plans gone astray. It’s his life or the killer’s. Only one can survive the day.
Will Jacob survive a second encounter with a man determined to eliminate the only person who can identify him?
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Not Dead Enough
A psychic PI. A retired assassin. A witness nobody's supposed to keep alive.
The dead care more about the living than do the living. Jacob Daniels has spent his life proving it—psychic, private investigator, the man the living and the dead call for help.
One phone call sends his partner into a corruption case that runs from a Milwaukee courthouse to the federal government and every dirty hand in between. A witness too ordinary to matter holds testimony too dangerous to survive. Mercenaries wear bodyguard suits. The agencies sworn to protect him are the ones who want him gone. As the body count climbs across state lines, the only person deadly enough to even the odds is the assassin who walked out of Daniels’ bed at midnight.
Cindy will kill them all to keep him safe. Daniels isn't sure he can let her. Not when redemption is at stake.
How far do you go to protect the living — and who do you become when the dead are the only ones you can trust? Step into Jacob Daniels' world in Not Dead Enough.
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No Rest for the Dead
The dead are tired of waiting. They want justice.
Jacob Daniels is the tool they have chosen to help them find peace. The only way to live the life he wants is to accept his gift and become their guardian angel.
Daniels has his fun at a Halloween Corn Maze ruined by ghosts who are seeking vengeance. While searching for the missing father of a friend, he discovers that the killer is a pupil of Martin Franklin.
But the student has exceeded the teacher.
Daniels finds himself with a target on his back once again as he works to track down the witness who has seen the killer.
However, the killer learned from his mentor’s mistakes and isn’t afraid to use the people Daniels cares about as leverage to make him stop. Daniels and all who care about him become targets as well.
Can a psychic who wants a normal life become a weapon for the spirit world and survive unscathed? Or will he become another victim?
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