Publisher's Synopsis
From K. R. Eckert, author of the popular History Hunters Series of novels, comes this collection of nine multi-genre short stories. Running the gamut from Crime to Fantasy, and from history to horror, the stories each feature everyman characters thrust into extraordinary situations. In Ultrasonic Hound, a man uses a whistle and an answering machine as weapons in his obsessive quest for revenge. In The Man In the Back Seat, an experienced cabbie is faced with the reality that his passenger is a murderer, and he may be the next victim. Echoes from Hallowed Ground takes you on a car ride with a young boy and his father. Along an empty road in Gettysburg Pennsylvania, they come upon the tell-tale signs of battle. The Soldier in Blue is faced with the reality of using his deceased comrades to shield him from enemy attack. In The Witch's Cross, a grave robber discovers that death is not always permanent. In Grandmother's House, a man must race against time to destroy that which his is convinced is trying to murder him, his ancestral home. Residents of a small New England town discovers that not every child is looking for candy, on Halloween in Spirit Falls. The Nameless Thief travels to Vegas to find that the odds are not always with the house. And finally, ex con Mike Calhoun risks it all on one heist, a daring robbery of a ruthless mobster, in To Rob an Angel.
