Little Merrie Callahan is all grown up now.She doesn't believe in Santa anymore.But she still has an axe to grind with the man in the red suit...MERRIE AXEMAS is an intense sampling of the novel IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER. It brings you to the edge, taunts you with unanswered questions, and hangs you with an alternate ending.IT STARTED SEVEN YEARS AGO...A brutal murder in a small town, carefully staged to echo a crime scene from 1975.No clues. No leads. Just questions.The following year it happened again. And then again...Every year. Same day. Same place. Exact same scene from the past... No resolution.Now, FBI Special Agent Constance Mandalay has less than four days to stop the annual horror from marking its eighth anniversary, but she also has another problem: The residents of the small town just might be protecting a killer secret...SA Mandalay is dispatched as an eleventh hour replacement for another agent, tasked with investigating a cold case that portends the chilling copycat murder each year. Armed only with a woefully incomplete case file and her dogged determination, she seeks out the answers before another body can be sent to the morgue. However, she finds that sometimes the answers simply lead to more questions; and that the past is sometimes destined to repeat itself, with a vengeance... MERRIE AXEMAS is a creepy police-procedural, thriller novella with a wicked paranormal twist, from the warped mind of M. R. Sellars, author of the award-winning Rowan Gant Investigations series of supernatural thrillers. Although set during the Christmas holiday season, it is an enthralling read at any time of year.SPECIAL NOTE:MERRIE AXEMAS: A Killer Holiday Tale was originally written and distributed as a free gift during the 2010 Christmas season to long time fans of M. R. Sellars' RGI novels. However, soon after its release, readers were clamoring for more of Special Agent Constance Mandalay, as well as more of the "Merrie Axemas story." Therefore, the full-length novel, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER was born (released November 2011) and officially launched the new Special Agent Constance Mandalay Novels thriller series.In effect, MERRIE AXEMAS is both a stand-alone novella, and a bone-chilling sample cut straight from the heart of the novel IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER. It launches you into Special Agent Constance Mandalay's world, brings you to the edge, and then taunts you with the same unanswered questions that plague her. Finally, it presents you with a spoiler-free alternate ending to that of the full-length novel.FROM THE "VIRTUAL" BACK COVER:Little Merrie Callahan is all grown up now.She doesn't believe in Santa anymore.But she still has an axe to grind with the man in the red suit...And, for FBI Special Agent Constance Mandalay, the Christmas Holiday will never be the same again.

Thou Shalt Not Suffer Rowan Gant To Live... In February of 2001, serial killer Eldon Andrew Porter, following the tenets of the Malleus Maleficarum, tortured and subsequently murdered several innocent people - his own modern day Witch hunt. He narrowly escaped apprehension by the Greater Saint Louis Major Case Squad. In December of the same year, he returned to Saint Louis bent on revenge.

A legacy of darkened desires and magick gone terribly wrong. If Rowan Gant's wife, Felicity, is to survive, the sadistic serial killer known as Mistress Miranda must be stopped. But simply finding Miranda will be a trick in itself, because she's not exactly who she appears to be. The End Of Desire is the final chapter of the gut wrenching Miranda Trilogy... Or, is it?

A missing school teacher, decomposed remains in a shallow grave, and a sadistic serial killer prowling Saint Louis by the semi-darkness of the waning moon- exactly the kind of thing Rowan Gant has no choice but to face. But, this time his bane, the uncontrolled channeling of the spirits of murder victims, isn't helping; for the dead are speaking, but not to him.

For The Residents Of The Small Town Of Hulis, Missouri, The Christmas Holidays Can Be Hell... On December 22nd, 1975, something unthinkable happened in the small, northern Midwest town of Hulis, Missouri—something so heinous that it turned the holidays into a waking nightmare. Now, 35 years later, it’s happening all over again, and for those involved, Christmas will never be the same...

Once again, Rowan is thrust headlong into a murder investigation as a civilian consultant to the Greater Saint Louis Major Case Squad and his best friend, homicide detective Ben Storm. However, the dark visions now playing out in his mind’s eye bring the twisted desires of a deranged predator far too close to home, making Rowan doubt his own sanity—and perhaps even innocence.

Little time has passed since the horror known as Miranda turned Rowan Gant's and his wife Felicity O'Brien's lives into a nightmare, and still her evil continues to affect them on levels unimagined. Fighting to cope with the lingering aftereffects and once again achieve normalcy, the resilient duo find themselves embroiled in another murder investigation with all too familiar implications.

When a young woman is ritualistically murdered in her Saint Louis apartment with the primary clue being a pentacle scrawled in her own blood, police are quick to dismiss it as a cult killing. Not one for taking things at face value, city homicide detective Ben Storm calls on his long time friend, Rowan Gant–a practicing Witch–for help.

At 1:52 PM, November 18, Rowan Gant’s wife, Felicity O’Brien was arrested and charged with a string of brutal murders. Due to the bizarre and almost inexplicable events leading up to her arrest, even she is unsure of her own innocence, let alone her sanity. Now, Rowan will stop at nothing to clear her. But to do so he must find and stop a killer who has already been dead for over 150 years.