Looking to shake up his listless life, Clay thinks he’s struck gold when he accepts a winter dog-sitting job on the remote vacation haven of Mackinac Island. In a single season, he’ll live rent-free while chipping away at mounting debt, finally complete his perpetually unfinished novel, and maybe rekindle a summer spark with Olivia, one of the island’s locals. Instead, the ferries stop running, the tourists vanish, and none of the locals, least of all Olivia, seem to want him there. 

Clay retreats to the isolated bluff-top manor, where his presence seems to wake something in a house long used to silent winter slumber. Unsettling sights, sounds, and even smells torment him daily until a mysterious woman in red slips into his bed at night, offering comfort and promising protection from the dark spirit locals call the Black Missionary. Fear of the malignant entity and frustration with his uneven relationship with Olivia pull Clay deeper into the lustful embrace of his protective female presence, and he slowly becomes wholly dependent, even obsessed, with her as he tries to survive the winter. 

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Dead Season: A Winter on Mackinac Island is a debut haunted-house novel blending fantasy horror, erotic horror, psychological horror, folk horror, and occult fiction. This is for readers who like their snowed-in stories intimate, atmospheric, and merciless.

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Available to pick up on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited now

Eight inseparable friends head to a secluded river cabin in Maple Springs for a couples’ weekend: sunbathing, kayaking, drinks by the fire - and a planned group acid trip they decide to film for their own entertainment.

The next morning, they wake up sick, scattered, and missing whole chunks of the night. What's worse is two of them are gone. No note, no goodbye - just cryptic texts that dodge every question about what happened and why they left.

Desperate for answers, the remaining friends turn to the camera.

What they see isn’t just a night that devolved into accidental swinging - though that causes enough problems. The footage also shows the door to the cabin’s previously inaccessible basement hanging open and a masked man wading through their tangled, drugged bodies. And even on video, they can’t tell if he’s one of them...or an unknown stranger.

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Coming soon in 2026.