Books
The Wolves of Amleth
A Novel
"Set in Amleth, a rugged land divided by decades of bitter strife with a landscape and belief system heavily influenced by my time in Scandinavia. The Wolf We Feed is an action-packed fantasy adventure."
Tirith's life is turned upside-down when Drake, her twin brother, abandons her after they were raised and trained in isolation. Unable to live under the perceived tyranny of their grandfather, Drake sets off into the world looking forward to an adventure. Arriving in the dystopian city of Náströnd, Drake finds a new mentor and becomes involved in a bloody coup to eliminate the city's ruling class.Amid plots and counter-plots, conflict and betrayal a determined but uncertain young woman undertakes a treacherous journey to meet her father for the first time, overcomes racial bias in a foreign land, and learns the truth about her family's sinister past. What she discovers leaves her with no choice but to find her brother and attempt to save him from the violent life he has chosen. But does he want to be saved?
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The Nightcrawler
A Novella
Book One of the Still Extant Series
The problem with the end of the world is that it’s a gradual process. It keeps getting worse. It tests you until you break, just to see if you can put yourself back together. Caz and her father do what they must to survive the fall of humanity. Hunting when they can, and scavenging supplies from the derelict shells of a deserted city, they rely on each other to make it to the end of each day.The end of each day. A time when darkness falls and the monsters responsible for the collapse of society emerge to hunt.
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Terror Forming
When all else has failed, Dr. Lylah goes to extraordinary lengths to save her patient. Using untested technology, she undergoes a process of digitization and downloads her consciousness onto a nano craft to explore the ever-expanding tumor pressing against her patient’s brain. What she finds is far from what she expected. An entire universe inhabited by big game hunters, criminal cartels, and timeless monsters.
Suddenly digitalization and ethical dilemmas are the least of her concerns as she searches for a cure within this tenebrous bubble of reality.
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The Kinsman
Book Two in the Still Extant series
The Kinsman is a tale of grief, loss, and personal redemption as one man's search for family becomes a treacherous voyage within himself. Following the death of his childhood sweetheart, Steve embarks on a perilous journey to reconnect with the family he left behind.
With the world in chaos, and deadly creatures roaming the land, Steve rests by day and travels by night to find his younger brother. But will the man he finds bear any resemblance to the boy he left behind?
As the world crumbles around him, Steve's sense of self teeters on the brink of collapse. With the clock ticking, and nothing left to lose, Steve will do whatever it takes to atone for the sins of his past and protect what’s left of his kin.
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"With The Kinsman, Sheppard keeps the tension high, the pacing frantic, and returns us to a world where massive roaches are now the apex predator with glee. A fantastic follow up and a roaring good time!"
- Steve Stred. 2X Splatterpunk Nominated author of Mastodon, Churn the Soil and Father of Lies.
Published by Aphotic Realm
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