David DeGeorge

What would you do if you were on a game show and promised a large sum of money should you answer various questions correctly-but for each incorrect answer, you received an electric shock? Imagine watching the show and learning the shocks had been given by someone who'd wanted revenge on you. Welcome to... The Chair!

The Chair

Navigating the complex labyrinth that is high school - friends, relationships, classes, and teachers - is challenging enough, but four friends find themselves grappling with the question of what's more important: Loyalty or self-preservation? When Rock, Lilly, Damon, and Tom have a substitute teacher following the passing of their previous teacher, they react like normal high school students - joking, goofing off, and playing around until the new teacher displays a hidden "talent." After students misbehave, she runs her long nails down the chalkboard, causing immense suffering amongst the teens. When a few suspicious incidents occur, Rock theorizes that their new teacher, Bella Christianson, has some mysterious unknown ability that is plaguing them. After Tom, one of Rock's friends, gets sick under mysterious circumstances, it's up to Rock, his girlfriend Lilly, and his friend Damon, to find out what is going on with the new, young attractive sub, Ms. Christianson. There's something about her that Rock finds uncontrollably hot, but at the same time, there's something off about her. And to make matters worse, people keep turning up dead. Nonetheless, after being seduced, Rock begins a forbidden love affair with his teacher, all the while observing her strange behaviors. But how long can it last? Will Rock and his friends be able to survive their encounters with their dangerous teacher?

Chalktrauma

Eighteen-year-old Justin Hopkins ekes out a living writing freelance articles for magazines. When he receives an offer from his psychiatrist uncle to help write about ground-breaking research, Justin jumps at the chance. He travels to his Uncle Blake's isolated ranch with hopes of big-time publication. There, however, he is held captive and worn down, physically and mentally, by Blake and his followers-all, as Blake professes, to make Justin as ' strong as possible, ' in body and mind. Can Justin survive the torment? Or will he succumb and join the others, even bring harm to someone else, now believing it will make them as 'strong as possible?

Internment

Accounting for Clues is a murder mystery involving former private investigator and CPA Claude Monday. He is asked to assist police in a case where a serial killer mails accounting statements to police then leaves a copy at the crime scene. The story unfolds in shifting perspective, from Claude's viewpoint to the killer's, who is trying to cope with his wife's miscarriage and succeeding illness as well as his own failures. Despite concerns from Claude's wife, Kay, that he might get too involved, Claude works the case. Gradually, he gets so into it he does not notice his wife's call when the couple's eighteen-year-old, Nicole, is hospitalized. Claude eventually solves the meaning of the statements. Later, Nicole goes out with friends, informing her dad where she's going. Claude, too wrapped up in his thoughts upon decoding the clues, doesn't hear her. Before leaving, Nicole hands the mail to Claude, who notices an envelope with no return address or stamp, wondering how it got delivered. Upon opening it, he discovers it's the killer's clue and theorizes the guy knows where he lives, even had the nerve to deliver the clue. Claude then solves this clue--and realizes the next victim to be his daughter. During his frantic search, he finds Nicole's car. Though abandoned, a clue is left in the car's trunk, this one hinting where the suspect has taken the girl. Claude calls police and, unsure how quickly they'll arrive at the scene in addition to feeling responsible for Nicole's predicament, goes there himself. At the location, he finds the place unoccupied then hears a car drive off and deduces who's in the vehicle: the killer and Nicole. The guy tells Nicole, now bound and gagged, he will dump her in the nearby river then take care of Claude. However, as they approach the river, the girl loosens her bonds, distracting her captor. As a result, he swerves and crashes into the water. Tailing them, Claude jumps into the river, swims to the car and grasps his daughter's hand. But after swimming ashore, he discovers it's the killer he's pulled free. After a struggle, Claude subdues the man then rescues Nicole and takes her to the hospital. Kay joins them in the Intensive Care Unit, father and daughter with minor injuries. Claude promises this to be his last case and the couple reconciles, again a family.

David DeGeorge

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