Deep in a ravine in the picturesque Smoky Mountains is a very dark secret.
David Hobbs, vacationing with his wife Miriam, inadvertently stumbles upon a small cloth 'keepsake' bag and a broken tooth. A human tooth. Miriam begs David to hand the bag and tooth over to park officials, but he ignores his wife's pleas and secretly keeps the 'harmless' items. The action opens a doorway that had been closed for nearly one hundred years and unleashes hell on earth, or at least hell in the lives of David and Miriam.
Following the brutal murder of his best friend in Denver, and an aborted attack on his oldest son, David desperately seeks to understand why a mysterious teenage girl has chosen to terrorize him and the males closest to him. To prevent further devastation to his family and end the wanton bloodshed, he returns to the enchanted hills of eastern Tennessee, where a terrible truth awaits discovery... one that forces him to face the consequences for the unpaid sins of his ancestors.
The Great Betrayer in his own words...
William Barrow carries a dark secret. A very dark secret.
An archivist for the Smithsonian Institute and a part-time operative for the CIA, no one would ever suspect the handsome 'thirty-ish' William is the most reviled human being ever to walk the earth.
But long ago, William Barrow had another name...one that is synonymous with shame and betrayal: Judas Iscariot.
Forced to walk the earth as a cursed immortal, William/Judas is on a quest to reclaim the thirty silver shekels paid to him in exchange for Jesus Christ.
Twenty-one coins have now been recovered-thanks in large part to the help from his latest son, the esteemed Georgetown University history professor, Alistair Barrow.
Ever hopeful the complete coin collection will buy him a full pardon from God and end his banishment from heaven, William plans to visit a remote village deep within Iran's Alborz Mountains to retrieve 'silver coin number twenty-two'.
But the CIA has a different objective for this trip, one that pits both father and son against an unscrupulous Russian billionaire searching for something else that's just as precious within the ancient mountains of Iran.
Something that threatens peace in the modern world if William and Alistair fail to reach it first.
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An ancient menace far worse than Kaslow has successfully tracked William and Roderick to Virginia after hunting the pair for nearly five hundred years.
Hailing from the older kingdoms of Europe, this new threat once gained notoriety as the cruelest tyrant in recorded history.
Vlad Tepes.
Better known as Vlad the Impaler, this ruthless immortal carries an unquenchable thirst for torture, slavery, and bloodletting...
In addition to a long-standing grudge against William and Roderick, the lure of eternal youth and freedom from the sun's blistering rays are what pull 'Dracul' from his secluded island castle in the Adriatic Sea.
Indeed, the vampire's lifeline to immortality is tied to a blood coin-one that William is reluctant to pursue.
However, once faced with dire alternatives between long-standing friendships, the welfare of his family, and the threat of bondage upon the entire world, there is no other choice.
Find the Dragon Coin first-or pay the ultimate price.
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Krontos Lazarevic may be the vilest sorcerer ever to live, and he stands in the way of William Barrow (aka Judas Iscariot) finishing his quest to reclaim thirty silver pieces paid to him to betray Jesus Christ.
Forced to flee an underground fortress in Abingdon, Virginia, William and his companions end up in the quirky spiritual town of Sedona, Arizona.
For a short while, it appears they might finally have a moment of repreive to enjoy life without looking over their shoulders.
But the purchase of a horse ranch brings only temporary happiness once Krontos demands William's surrender of the Dragon Coin.
Amid this latest crisis, another blood coin resurfaces.
Believed lost with the fall of the Third Reich, this coin was once legendary for miraculous events among prisoners at Stutthof and later Auschwitz concentration camps.
For that reason alone, it is preferred by Krontos over the Dragon Coin. But the coin also is key to restoring a medieval shrine known as The Silver Trinity of Death.
The race is on to block Krontos from purchasing the Stutthof-Auschwitz Coin from the antiquities black market.
After all, if the shrine is restored to its previous state, nothing will stand in the way of Krontos's grand designs-something he once enlisted the Nazis to help accomplish.
The stakes have never been higher or deadlier for William and the gang as they travel to Germany, Poland, and finally Hungary to stop this latest madman from taking over the world.
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An ancient menace that was widely believed to have died in 1912 has now reappeared with a vengeance.
Zoa Promaji, a demonic horde of nearly six-hundred entities, had long been credited for some of the worst calamities to strike mankind during the past two-thousand years.
Instigating disasters ranging from weather and seismic events to plagues responsible for the eventual deaths of millions of people mercifully came to an end when the demons guided an iceberg field into the path of the RMS Titanic.
The horde in its entirety was believed to have perished in their attempt to murder their beleaguered sorcerer, Matija Badnjak, a passenger aboard the ill-fated ocean liner.
But in recent years, the wicked entities that sank long ago with the mighty ship have been given new life by an unsuspecting treasure hunter.
As a result, Zoa Promaji has reemerged in the modern world, thirsty for revenge after being imprisoned in the Atlantic's cold dark depths for more than a century.
The demons seek to kill as many people as possible by combining storm systems, pulling magma to the earth's outer crust, and by invigorating diseases that had long been dormant.
The effort to terrorize the Earth begins in America, using a forgotten blood coin that once belonged to Judas Iscariot and the natural gifts and experiences of David Fulmer-the treasure hunter turned sorcerer.
Roderick and the gang soon discover that these adversaries are far more powerful than anything or anyone they've encountered before.
But engaging the entities and their latest sorcerer head-on comes with a personal price.
But with the fate of the world's citizens hanging in the balance, there isn't any other choice than to risk their lives for the greater good.
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William Barrow (aka Judas Iscariot) is faced with one of the most important decisions of his two-thousand-year stay on Earth...
Should he leave well enough alone and seek a quiet retirement, having retrieved the first twenty-eight of the original thirty coins of silver paid to him for betraying Jesus Christ?
Or should he press on to recover the last two shekels and find out if it is enough to redeem his soul before Almighty God?
The temptation to delay the inevitable is quite alluring-especially since it comes with the promise of a new life with Beatrice-as they build a meaningful existence after the tragedy in New Orleans sixteen months earlier.
The potential of decades-or even centuries-of unfettered happiness is quite real, given the perpetual youth they all enjoy.
But after Viktor Kaslow returns to William's world, the permanence of such a blissful existence becomes precarious at best.
Now the ruler of an ancient demonic realm, Kaslow relies on ultimate wickedness to force William back into the coin collecting game.
Tragedy again serves as a catalyst that fuels a grueling race across four continents to track down the 'capstone' of the collection...
The Damascus Coin.
To reach this ultimate prize, William and his companions must survive a host of new deadly obstacles.
Meanwhile, a society of immortals watches with keen interest from the sidelines as the ruthless Russian and the forlorn Disciple of Christ square off for the last time.
Will the joy of salvation or eternal damnation await William, long hated as Judas?
He's about to find out...
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William Barrow (aka Judas Iscariot) has moved on to the afterlife...
However, the lingering curses from the 'Thirty Blood Coins' continue to be a scourge against mankind.
Roderick Cooley, Judas's Druid companion for the past eighteen hundred years, can't ignore the injustices that flourish as a result...
Meanwhile, Krontos Lazarevic has returned to fulfill his desire to control the world. This time, the Hungarian madman inspires the rise of twin networks of police states in Europe and North America-arousing the alarm of immortals throughout the planet.
For Roderick, it's become imperative to stop Krontos before he throws all of modern civilization into permanent chaos.
A meeting near Milan, Italy, offers the promise of salvation until it's learned that Krontos has engaged the oldest and most powerful immortals in recorded history to assist his conquest of humanity...
The Nephilim.
Time is running out for Roderick and his companions, Rachel Bashemath and Cedric Tomlinson, to stop the menace.
Aided by a group of sorcerers and European vampires, a deadly confrontation looms in the heart of America's Capital.
Can Krontos be stopped before Hell is unleashed on Earth and modern society is changed forever?
Or will a New Order of tyranny take root?
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Acclaim for Aiden James: Aiden James has written a deeply psychological, gripping tale that keeps the readers hooked from page one. Bookfinds review for The Forgotten Eden A variety of twists, surprises, and subplots keep the story moving forward at a good pace. My interest was piqued almost immediately and my attention never wavered as I forced my eyes to stay open well into the night. (Sleep is overrated.) Aiden James is a Master Storyteller, whose career is on the rise! Out-freaking-standing-excellent! Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews, for Immortal Plague Aiden James' writing style flows very easily and I found that Cades Cove snowballed into a very gripping tale. Clearly the strengths in the piece were as the spirit's interaction became prevalent with the family... The Indian lore and ceremonies and the flashbacks to Allie Mae's (earthly) demise were very powerful. I think those aspects separated the work from what we've seen before in horror and ghost tales. Evelyn Klebert, Author of A Ghost of a Chance, Dragonflies, and An Uneasy Traveler for Cades Cove The intense writing style of Aiden James kept my eyes glued to the story and the pages seemed to fly by at warp speed... Twists, turns, and surprises pop up at random times to keep the reader off balance. It all blends together to create one of the best stories I have read all year. Detra Fitch, Huntress Reviews, for The Devil's Paradise Aiden James is insanely talented! We are watching a master at work... Ghost stories don't get any better than this. J.R. Rain, Author of Moon Dance' and Vampire Moon for The Raven Mocker