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The Gift
Book 1 of The Gift Series
THE GIFT
Book One of The Gift Series
Darin Evans can speak to the dead.
It's not a metaphor. Through physical contact with preserved remains—a finger, a lock of hair—Darin communes with consciousnesses that persist beyond death. The Gift has passed from father to son in his family for generations, a sacred ability that offers comfort to the living and voice to the departed.
When the Vatican learns of Darin's Gift, they summon him to Rome for a demonstration. What begins as scholarly curiosity transforms into something darker: a test of faith, a question of power, and a glimpse into the Church's ancient secrets. The Vatican's own communions with saints are fading. They need to understand why. They need to understand Darin.
But some knowledge comes at a terrible price.
After returning from Rome, Darin marries Wendy Davis—a woman who sees past his extraordinary ability to the man beneath. Their happiness is fragile, built on hope for a normal life despite the Gift that sets Darin apart. That hope shatters when Darin boards a plane to New York and never arrives.
The official cause of death: natural. A heart attack at eighteen years old.
Wendy knows better. And so does the consciousness that Darin leaves behind, trapped in a severed finger, waiting in the void for someone who can hear him.
Fifteen years later, their son will inherit more than just the Gift.
He'll inherit the truth.
*The Gift* is the unforgettable beginning of a series about love that transcends death, family that defies the impossible, and the terrible cost of being extraordinary in a world that fears what it cannot control.
The Second Gift
Book 2 of The Gift Series
THE SECOND GIFT
Book Two of The Gift Series
Leo Evans never knew his father. Darin died before Leo was born—officially from a heart attack, though his mother Wendy knows it was murder.
What Leo does know is impossible: his father's consciousness survived death, preserved in a severed finger kept locked away. Through that finger, through the Gift that passes from father to son, Leo can speak to the dead man who loves him. A father who guides him, teaches him, shapes him from beyond the grave.
At five years old, Leo is extraordinary. Brilliant. Sensitive. And carrying a supernatural ability that must remain secret from a world that wouldn't understand—and a Church that's already killed to protect its own mysteries.
Raised by Wendy, a nurse balancing night shifts with single motherhood, and supported by Jackie, the grandmother-figure who holds their fractured family together, Leo navigates childhood in the shadow of an impossible inheritance. Every communion with Darin brings comfort and connection. But it also brings questions Leo is too young to answer.
Why did the Vatican murder his father?
What did Darin discover in Rome that was worth killing for?
And as Leo grows older, as the Gift strengthens within him, another question emerges:
Will the same people who killed his father come for him too?
*The Second Gift* chronicles the early years of a child born into extraordinary circumstances, exploring the fierce love of a mother protecting her son from forces she barely understands, and a father's devotion that not even death can end.
The Gift has been passed. The danger is just beginning.
The Broken Gift
Book 3 of The Gift Series
THE BROKEN GIFT
Book Three of The Gift Series
Leo Evans is thirteen years old when he makes the mistake that destroys everything.
The Gift—the ability to commune with the dead through physical remains—was supposed to be sacred. Protected. Used only with permission and wisdom. But Leo is thirteen, curious, and convinced he can handle what his father, Darin, warned him against.
One communion. One dried flake of blood from a violent death. One moment of teenage arrogance.
That's all it takes.
Frank March was a serial killer who died frustrated, incomplete, robbed of the infamous death he craved. Now his consciousness has found a new body. A new chance. And Leo, trapped inside his own mind, can only watch in horror as Frank uses his hands, his voice, his face to hurt everyone Leo loves.
The violence escalates. The cruelty deepens. And when Frank commits the unforgivable—when Leo's own hands take a life that can never be returned—the family that has survived the impossible faces its greatest test.
Can love persist when the unsurvivable happens?
Can a family broken by possession find healing through forgiveness?
And can a teenage boy drowning in guilt for actions he didn't choose learn to believe he's still worth saving?
*The Broken Gift* is a dark, unflinching exploration of evil, agency, and the terrible price of forbidden knowledge. It's a story about a family that refuses to give up on each other, even when giving up would be easier. Even when hope seems impossible.
Some gifts, once broken, can never be the same.
But love—fierce, sacrificial, impossible love—might be strong enough to rebuild what evil shattered.
The Transparent Gift
Book 4 of The Gift Series
THE TRANSPARENT GIFT
Book Four of The Gift Series
For fifteen years, Wendy Evans has lived as a widow. Her husband Darin murdered by the Vatican, his consciousness preserved in a severed finger, their marriage reduced to moments of communion through the supernatural Gift that binds their family.
She has endured the impossible. Raised their son Leo alone. Survived her mother's murder. Watched Leo possessed by evil and fought to save him.
But endurance is not the same as living. And Wendy is done merely surviving.
Darin's consciousness can possess her body temporarily—inhabit her, experience physical sensation, be alive again for stolen hours. What began as comfort transforms into something deeper. What started as possession becomes courtship. And what they both want—what they're both willing to risk everything for—is permanence.
A consciousness merger. Two minds in one body. Forever.
It should be impossible. The Gift has rules. Boundaries. Patterns followed for generations.
But Wendy and Darin have never accepted impossibility before.
The cost will be steep. The merger will corrupt the Gift itself, breaking inheritance rules that have governed their family for centuries. Leo will lose the ability that connects him to his father. The Vatican, already hunting them, will have new reasons to fear what they've become.
And there's no guarantee the merger will even work.
But for a chance to hold Darin again. To be together, truly together, for whatever time remains—Wendy will risk anything.
*The Transparent Gift* is an intimate exploration of love beyond death, identity beyond gender, and the terrible beauty of choosing connection over safety. It's a story about two people who refuse to let death define the boundaries of their marriage, and the family that must adapt to something unprecedented.
Sometimes the greatest gift is the one you create yourself.
Even if it breaks all the rules.
The Final Gift
Book 5 of The Gift Series
THE FINAL GIFT
Book Five of The Gift Series
The Vatican has been patient. For five years, they've watched the merged consciousness of Wendy and Darin Evans—two minds in one body, an abomination that broke centuries of tradition. They've documented every deviation from the rules that governed their sacred Gift for generations.
And now, they've decided the experiment must end.
Leo is nineteen years old. He's survived possession, grief, and the weight of family secrets that would break most people. He's watched his parents navigate an impossible existence—two souls sharing one body, defying everything the Vatican claims to understand about the Gift they've hidden for centuries.
But when Vatican representatives start appearing too frequently, asking too many questions, making veiled threats wrapped in religious doctrine, Leo begins to suspect the truth:
His family didn't just break the rules.
They became a threat that needed to be eliminated.
Now Leo faces an impossible choice. Trust the institution that's protected the Gift for generations—the same institution that might be slowly murdering his parents. Or stand against forces that have operated in shadow since before his grandfather was born.
Either way, the Gift that's defined three generations of his family is about to exact a price no one anticipated.
*The Final Gift* is the stunning conclusion to the series that began with a father's love and ends with a legacy that cannot be destroyed. It's about the sacrifices parents make to protect their children. About the lengths we go to preserve what matters most. And about a gift that passes from generation to generation, whether we're ready for it or not.
Some legacies cannot be escaped.
Some gifts cannot be refused.
And some questions change everything.
Falling Up
Standalone Novel
Published: November 27, 2025
FALLING UP
A Novel
Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered what it would be like to fall into them?
On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, seven billion people find out.
The Earth's magnetic field reverses in an instant. The force that has held humanity to the ground since the dawn of time becomes the force that tears them away. Everything with iron in it—cars, buildings, aircraft, and the iron in human blood—accelerates upward at thirty-two feet per second squared.
Falling up.
Could you grab a tree branch? Could you reach the eaves of your house? And if you did—what then?
For the scattered survivors sheltering underground, in the right basements, behind the right walls, the reversal is just the beginning. Above them, millions of tons of debris orbit the planet. The ash from seven billion deaths darkens the sky. And on the International Space Station, four hundred kilometers up, three people face an impossible choice.
End the catastrophe and die.
Or survive and doom what's left of humanity.
*Falling Up* is a hard science fiction thriller about the end of the world, the cost of heroism, and the survivors who must rebuild from the ashes. It's a story of sacrifice, hope, and the stubborn human refusal to give up—even when the sky itself becomes the enemy.
When gravity fails, what do you hold onto?
Forever Alone
When a workplace shooting claims the life of Morgan Murphy's best friend, he never imagines it's only the beginning. His son Daniel's innocent wish upon a cosmic alignment grants Morgan something he never asked for: immortality.
As the world falls to a pandemic that destroys humanity. Morgan becomes the last human on Earth—unable to die, unable to escape, unable to end his suffering. He watches civilizations rise and fall. He witnesses the death of the sun, the end of Earth, the heat death of the universe itself.
But immortality has no mercy. Morgan survives it all.
Across googol years—a number so vast it defies comprehension—he endures an eternity of isolation, rebirth, and cosmic horror. From the primordial chaos of a new universe to the emergence of alien life billions of years in the future, Morgan's journey explores the ultimate price of living forever.
What do you wish for when you have an eternity to regret it?
A devastating meditation on grief, isolation, and the terrible weight of being. FOREVER ALONE is a cosmic horror story that asks: Is immortality a gift, or the cruelest curse imaginable?
Perfect for fans of philosophical science fiction, cosmic horror, and thought-provoking explorations of the human condition.
The Houska Covenant
The Houska Duology
George Castellano and Shane Svoboda investigate paranormal phenomena for their YouTube channel, Of Mice and Phenomena. Shane plays "Lenny," the comedic scaredy-cat. George films and tries to keep his best friend alive.
Then they visit Houska Castle in the Czech Republic—a medieval fortress built over a bottomless pit, legendary gateway to Hell. Shane falls. George descends to retrieve his body. And at the bottom of the pit, George meets someone who shouldn't exist: Lucifer himself, golden-winged and trapped for millennia.
The Devil offers a deal George can't refuse. In exchange for the souls of everyone he loves, George must deliver a message to God. Just four words: *I want to talk.*
There's only one problem: George is an atheist. Was an atheist. And he has absolutely no idea how to find God.
Armed with a glowing parchment, cryptic advice from theological experts, and research briefs from his late best friend's widow, George embarks on a quest across Europe's holiest sites. From the sacred wells of Ireland to the summit of Mount Sinai, he searches for the Creator of the Universe while dodging angry druids, alienating monks, and slowly losing his mind.
Because if he fails, everyone he loves spends eternity in Hell. No pressure.
A darkly comedic theological thriller about grief, friendship, free will, and why you should never make deals with the Devil—even when he's surprisingly reasonable about the whole thing.
The Houska Deliverance
The Houska Duology
George Castellano succeeded. Against all odds, he found God and delivered Lucifer's message. The covenant is fulfilled. The souls are safe. Shane's widow Heather can breathe again. Five-year-old Tyler gets to grow up without the threat of damnation hanging over his head.
There's just one small problem: Lucifer decided to keep George.
Now George is trapped in the pit beneath Houska Castle, watching the Devil pace and panic while waiting for God to respond. Days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. And just when George is ready to accept that he'll spend eternity as Hell's least enthusiastic houseguest, God finally shows up.
He looks exactly like XXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXX. (Gotta have SOME surprise for you, don't we?)
What follows is a father-son reunion millennia in the making, complete with cosmic revelations, theological arguments, and the kind of family dysfunction that only happens when one party rebelled against Heaven and the other designed him to do it. George learns the truth about free will, predestination, and why God needed a villain in the first place.
Also, there's a t-shirt. It's terrible. Tyler loves it.
A heartfelt, hilarious conclusion to the Houska duology about reconciliation, second chances, and the cosmic joke that is existence. Featuring an ancient adversary learning to be a person again, a deity with impeccable comedic timing, and one very confused former atheist who just wants to go home.
Maybe—Lucifer claims he's never been to Georgia. Couldn't find it on Brother Thomas' Guide Map.
The Author's Gift
The Gift Series
THE AUTHOR'S GIFT
"I didn't just write their story. I created them. And now they're here to tell me everything I got wrong."
Mike Gambell is a successful thriller writer with five bestselling novels about the Evans family and their supernatural gift—the ability to commune with the dead. It's all fiction. Carefully crafted, emotionally resonant fiction based on his grandfather's stories.
Until the day Darin Evans knocks on his door.
The character Mike created. The man who died in Book One. Standing on his porch, very much alive, with his wife Wendy and son Leo. They're real. They've always been real. And they need Mike's help.
Because the third book in his series—the one Mike's about to publish—contains events that haven't happened yet. Dark, violent events that will destroy this family Mike has accidentally created. Events he now has the power to prevent.
Or does he?
As Mike tries to rewrite fate itself, he discovers that some stories refuse to be controlled. The tapestry of destiny has its own gravity. And the line between author and participant, between creator and family, is about to dissolve completely.
When the horror of Book Three manifests despite his best efforts, Mike must face an impossible truth: he can't save everyone. But he can choose to love them through it. He can choose to be family.
Even if it costs him everything.
THE AUTHOR'S GIFT is the stunning conclusion to The Gift Series—a meta-narrative about guilt, redemption, and the families we choose when the ones we create become real.
Perfect for fans of Stephen King's "Misery" meets Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" with a touch of "Stranger Than Fiction."
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