J. R. Erickson

The dead tell stories. Are you listening? The ghosts of the past come calling in this edge-of-your-seat paranormal mystery. A decades old unsolved murder, women who speak to the dead, and a malevolent asylum doctor. Don't miss the Northern Michigan Asylum Series.

A Northern Michigan Asylum Novel

Some Can See

Inspired by a chilling true story...It’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote cabin for an escape from the life that another man has stepped into. Less than 48 hours into his reprieve, the forest tranquility is shattered when he looks through a telescope and witnesses the violent abduction of a young woman. Dan springs into action, but there’s no evidence of an abduction nor reports of a missing woman. That is, until Dan sees the missing person’s poster for Ivy Trent. He’s sure it’s the woman he saw get kidnapped just days before. There's only one problem. Ivy disappeared ten years ago.

Dark River Inn

Something evil lurks in Kerry Manor... Dare you step inside? A murder on Halloween night, a Gothic house filled with mysteries, and an asylum for the insane. What are you waiting for?

Calling Back the Dead

"For six long years, Max has avoided Draven, her hometown that holds the remnants of a ghastly accident. But when her brother dies, she is drawn back into the clutches of her haunted past. In the wake of her family's shattered happiness, Max is caught in a nightmarish whirlwind of horrors that defy the laws of our world. The epicenter of these malevolent forces resides within the crumbling walls of an abandoned farmhouse, burdened by a sinister history. The house harbors secrets, both old and new. Secrets that might just reveal the fate of a young woman who has gone missing. A woman with ties to Max's own former life in Draven." -- Back cover.

A Troubled Spirits Novel

After She Fled

The Troubled Spirits Series are stand-alone paranormal murder mysteries inspired by true crimes. Fifty years ago a diabolical plan was set in motion. It ended in murder. In present day, Adam Tate is in a rush to build his wife’s dream home. She’s ill, and he lives with the looming fear that her days are numbered in months rather than years. As he digs the foundation for their new home, he makes a chilling discovery-long-buried skeletons. On impulse, he hides the grave and pushes it from his mind. When Adam and his wife Holly move into their new home six months later, it becomes clear that Adam has awoken something that will not be silenced.

Ashwood's Girls

Abby Daniels has abandoned her life. As she grapples with the guilt of leaving her boyfriend, her family and her job, an enthralling stranger enters her small world. His name is Sebastian and his mysterious past and hypnotic blue eyes lull Abby from the fear of her hasty departure. However, her predictable life is truly flipped upside down when she stumbles upon the dead body of a young woman. As she uncovers the mysteries surrounding the woman's death, she unearths the previously invisible threads of her own secret identity. These threads, woven together with the aid of Sebastian, lead her to the Coven of Ula, a secret island in Lake Superior, inhabited by witches. Though their welcome is warm, the hidden island holds a truth that Abby cannot deny. She is a witch and her powers, whether she wants them or not, must be exercised. For Abby, the Coven of Ula represents an equally terrifying and exhilarating future. Alone, Abby faces the witches' most lethal enemy, the Vepar, whose demonic powers first enrapture and then destroy their victims.

The dead have stories to tell. Are you listening? On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary's yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows.In an abandoned cabin, beneath a tattered blanket, Sophia discovers Rosemary's body.It was not Rosemary who led her there, but Rosemary's ghost. Step into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane Twenty years after Sophia discovers Rosemary's body, she finds herself trapped in the sprawling, and eerily beautiful, Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, in the hands of a malevolent doctor who preys on patients who exhibit paranormal abilities. Sometimes the dead don't rest In present day 1965, Hattie, much like her mother, thirty years before, is led by a ghost. A newspaper hidden in an attic reveals a secret that has shaped the lives of Hattie and her siblings. Hattie with her sister, Jude, embark on a crusade to remedy the wrongs of the past and discover the tale of deception that stole their mother a decade before. Hattie and Jude are in a race against time to discover a murderer and save their mother from a horrific fate. Get lost in a uniquely chilling story that spans the life of a family and the ghosts who haunt them.

Some Can See: Large Print (a Northern Michigan Asylum Novel)

"On a desolate peninsula, Skelling Hall has stood for more than a century. When Iris Walsh confronts some troubling truths about her family, she flees to the Upper Peninsula to seek solace at the home of her grandmother. She's soon swept into a disturbing mystery haunting her grandmother's small town. At the heart of the mystery is Skelling Hall, the isolated mansion with a sinister past."--Back cover.

Still Falling

Flowers in Her Bones

Don't miss Kanti-the spellbinding third book in the Born of Shadows Series.How do you escape a curse? A curse that is ancient, deadly, and cast by the evil spirit of a woman who has been dead for centuries? Abby and Sebastian are next in line. As they search for the origin of the curse, and more importantly how to break it, Abby watches Sebastian slip further toward darkness. Deadly secrets, malevolent witches and a horror that has survived hundreds of years.Can the witches of Ula end the curse before it destroys them all?

Kanti

In the riveting finale to the Born of Shadows series, the curse that has haunted Trager City for three hundred years is about to end. Death will come for some, others will transform into beings of the night. Abby will face the ultimate sacrifice to save her daughter from a fate that has stolen the lives and loves of witches for centuries.

Snake Island

Don't miss the thrilling fourth book in the Born of Shadow's Series. New to the world of witches, Abby is pregnant and desperate to destroy the curse that threatens to wipe out her barely-formed family. Together with Sebastian, Abby and the witches of Ula travel to a mystical paradise that is home to the Sky Mothers-a mysterious coven of witches who possess a weapon they hope will end the curse once for all. However, a sinister world, destined to collide with their own, exists within the Sky Mother's isolated forests. As the story of the curse's origin unfolds, the truth of their enemy grows ever-tangled and lost in a sordid history of violence, passion and power. For Abby and Sebastian, time is running out.

Sky Mothers

Inspired by an eerie true story.Lorraine Hicks is fourteen-years-old when she watches her best friend, Beverly climb into a tree in the forest and never come back down. It's a mystery that haunts her small town and embeds itself in Lorraine's life.Fifteen years later, Lori is a grown woman, doing her best to move on from her troubled childhood. She reluctantly agrees to a night of camping, despite her secret terror of the woods. As she sits by a roaring bonfire, a man stands and tells the story of two fourteen-year-old friends who walked into the Manistee National Forest-only one of them walked back out.The story is hauntingly similar to Lori's own, and she embarks on a quest to discover if the two disappearances are linked.As she unravels the truth behind the vanishings, she unearths a malevolence that forces her to question if evil truly exists.Don't miss this chilling paranormal murder mystery.

Helme House

More than a decade ago, six kids witnessed unspeakable horror. Not all of them lived to tell. Riza is no longer that kid - troubled, angry, and filled with secrets. She's grown up, and when she stumbles upon an on-line forum about the shuttered Northern Michigan Asylum, she tries to pretend it never happened - not the years of experimentation, nor the strange midnight writings, and most of all, not the murders. But someone wants her to remember. Deaths shockingly similar to those that occurred in 1989 are happening again. As the killings get closer to home, Riza is forced to face her past one last time. Get lost in a chilling story of childhood secrets, unsolved murder, and a malevolent asylum for the insane. Bitter Ground is the final installment in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series.﻿

Bitter Ground

Let Her Rest is the seventh stand-alone novel in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series A night so terrifying, he blocked it for thirty years... Jake Edwards hasn't thought about the Northern Michigan Asylum in three decades. When Petra, a mysterious woman from his childhood, appears at his business, he suspects a practical joke. Until the woman vanishes, leaving behind a blood-spattered apartment and a trail of secrets that all lead back to the shuttered asylum. As Jake digs into his dark past, he must face the sinister forces who have been hunting him for decades.

Let Her Rest

Dark Omen

Deep in the forest, far back on Spellway Road, sits a long forgotten mansion where secrets long forgotten are drifting up from the darkness. Get lost in a creepy tale of Norse magic, cold-blooded murder, and ghosts.

Dead Stream Curse

Their mothers told them monsters weren't real, but they were wrong...

Rag Doll Bones

Each book in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series is a stand alone novel.Murder is not a secret if the dead can tell...Deep in the forest, far back on Spellway Road, sits a long forgotten mansion. The curtains billow despite the still day, and in the dark, shadowy rooms lies a secret kept under lock and key for two decades.The cursed; however, do not simply stay dead and buried. Twenty years ago, Liv did a horrible thing. Now the past seeks to right those wrongs. Skeletal fingers reach into her dreams. They grab hold of her heart and squeeze. She must return to Northern Michigan to the place where it all began, to the scene of the murder, the curse, to Halloween night 1945.Get lost in a creepy tale of Norse magic, cold-blooded murder, and ghosts.

Lorraine Hicks is fourteen-years-old when she watches her best friend, Beverly climb into a tree in the forest and never come back down. It’s a mystery that haunts her small town and embeds itself in Lorraine's life. Fifteen years later, Lori is a grown woman, doing her best to move on from her troubled childhood. She reluctantly agrees to a night of camping, despite her secret terror of the woods. As she sits by a roaring bonfire, a man stands and tells the story of two fourteen-year-old friends who walked into the Manistee National Forest-only one of them walked back out. The story is hauntingly similar to Lori’s own, and she embarks on a quest to discover if the two disappearances are linked. As she unravels the truth behind the vanishings, she unearths a malevolence that forces her to question if evil truly exists.

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