Erick W Mertz
A world held in shackles, bound by a mysterious fog.
A place where the practice of magic has been forbidden.
Something old is stirring. A mysterious force that threatens to upset a balance older than anyone can remember.
For nearly one thousand years, magic and its practitioners have been outlawed. They have be ...
Sometimes the dead come back to speak. Eleven years ago, a body was found days after a woman calling herself Charlene Browner checked into a motel. No possessions. No cause of death. No next of kin. It is almost as though she'd never existed. A strange accident on a lonely road launches Sheriff August Melville on a journey into Canyon County's past. Charlene was on the run -- but from what? As Mel ...
Most of these stories in this book are true. Some are not, however. They are the exaggerations of fevered dreams and illusions. Deciding which is the truth and which is fiction is entirely up to you. Canyon County, Oregon is a place unlike any other. For as long as people have lived out amongst the creek beds, hills and hollers they have encountered strange phenomenon. They have been prone to unex ...
Canyon County has a frightening secret. Not everything is what it seems out on the prairie. August Melville, the new sheriff of Whistler's Grove, is about to discover how difficult upholding the law in your home town can be. Sheriff Melville, just getting his feet west in his new role as sheriff, finds himself thrust into an ancient cycle of hauntings that has plagued his town for generations. Wil ...
Tasked with trying to keep the peace when a local biker gang hosts their annual \"powder puff\" football game, Sheriff August Melville is forced to protect a strange drifter who seems hell bent on antagonizing them and making trouble. What kind of person messes with a group of rowdy drunks? Melville sticks his neck out to protect the drifter from the gang. Rather than risk seeing him beaten ...
After many long years, returning to the halls of his childhood elementary school was supposed to be easy. But as newly elected sheriff August Melville soon discovers, upholding the law in Canyon County, Oregon, means confronting an array of strange and frightening secrets. Aware that Roberta Hancock had been murdered, Melville is forced to re-open the old investigation. Who really killed the o ...
