We are at our most vulnerable when it is dark, and we are often at our most dangerous when we are in a dark place...whether coming out of one or going into it.

In this collection of dark tales, experience murder and mayhem, betrayal and suspense, revenge and deceit. Consider here, also, the darker side of human behavior...including its ultimate terminus of death, and the shadowy paths which sometimes lead to it.

In Team Concept, discover a company's chilling version of an old idea to improve productivity in the workplace.

A Voodoo spell gone wrong is at the center of The Banishment.

A friendship is destroyed in Suicide Solution, where the showdown takes place on the precarious surface of a national monument-the Gateway Arch.

A serial killer is frustrated that someone is stealing his dead victims and making his own headlines, in The Organ Grinder.

After a plane crash in the desert, a lone survivor confronts his past while attempting to survive until rescue, with no water, in Desert Quest.

These stories, and others, are included in this tapestry of darkness.

Rounding out the last half of the book is the complete short novel, Final Shift: A Jake Tupper Mystery