Will Castleton Series by David Bain

"Slightly psychic" U.S. Marshal Will Castleton's tropical vacation is no escape from his past. This short story finds Will Castleton - who also appears in the novel DEATH SIGHT and THE CASTLETON FILES story collection - racing time through a hurricane to save a woman's life, the reporter who cashed in on the tragedy resulting in his psychic abilities hot on his trail.

In these stories - including an all-new 12,000-word novella, unavaliable anywhere else - "slightly psychic" detective Will Castleton takes on ghosts, hardcore criminals, his girlfriend and his relationship to reality itself.From a race against time to save a woman's life during a tropical storm, to a struggle for a child's lost soul in the snowy badlands.. moreIn these stories - including an all-new 12,000-word novella, unavaliable anywhere else - "slightly psychic" detective Will Castleton takes on ghosts, hardcore criminals, his girlfriend and his relationship to reality itself.From a race against time to save a woman's life during a tropical storm, to a struggle for a child's lost soul in the snowy badlands...From battling a betrayed ghost's wrath in a storm along the Lake Michigan shoreline to vying with vampiric creatures eating at the fabric of a suburban Chicago family's reality...Will Castleton uses any means necessary, physical or supernatural, to see justice done.Featuring an all-new 12,000-word novella, "Homeward Devils" - Will and his girlfriend Samantha are visiting Will's hometown of Green River, Michigan. But going home can bring you face to face with the ghosts of the past - as well as old enemies of a more physical nature. And then Will has a vision that someone will die before the night is over... It's not just angels who look homeward...THE CASTLETON FILES collects the following stories:Island Ghosts (available separately - FREE!)The Bridge (available separately)Samantha (available separately)Homeward Devils (a new 12,000-word novella unavailable anywhere else)Nighteyes (available separately)Watch for DEATH SIGHT, the first novel in the Will Castleton series, coming this summer.David Bain is the author of GRAY LAKE: A NOVEL OF CRIME AND SUPERNATURAL HORROR and several short story collections. He teaches writing at a community college in Indiana. less

Hospitalized after drowning during a rescue attempt, newly graduated U.S. Marshal Will Castleton is besieged by visions of a hulking executioner torturing a bound man. A perilous race against time leaves Will broken, unsure if he even wants to join the marshals. Escaping to his Michigan hometown, Will finds his father dying, a young woman’s ghost desperate to communicate with him, and a biker kingpin out to make a statement by taking out local law enforcement’s golden boy.