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    The Lodestone Files: The Things in the Shadows
    The Lodestone Files: The Things in the Shadows
    The Lodestone Files: The Things in the Shadows
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    The Lodestone Files: The Things in the Shadows

    By Robert J. S. T. McCartney

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    Idris Sinclair lives a rather typical life; helping his family run their cherished diner. However, all the normalness he knows in life is about to go straight out the window when he happens to break into an abandoned van in the restaurant's parking lot. He discovers a small weapon's stockpile and various files, involving affairs foreign to him.

    As night begins to set in, the family is involved in one of our government's most heinous and dastardly secrets involving entities, not of this world.
    It walks among us. It could be anyone—or anything. Suspect everyone you know, or you pass on the street. There is nowhere where you are safe. Run all you want; it will only make you taste more delicious to it.

    It's too late. It already knows where you are.

    It’s. Here.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert J. S. T. McCartney
    Release dateJul 5, 2016
    ISBN9781311307477
    The Lodestone Files: The Things in the Shadows
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    Robert J. S. T. McCartney

    Robert J. S. T. McCartney is an author and the founder of A.B.Normal Publishing and Media Group. He draws his inspiration from his nightmares and dreams, as well as the many forms of music. He says that his inspiration can be born from anything, and he is always writing down ideas, or making up outlines of stories. He quotes his favorite authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Edgar A. Poe, J. R. R. Tolkien—to list a few of the many. He loves horror, science fiction, fantasy, and comedy. He is a big fan of Simon Peg, and Nick Frost. He never used to like writing in high school, and always disliked English class. His sentiments started to change his senior year, where he did research papers on the absurdity that politicians and groups labeled video games as the cause of violence. Writing began to become his passion after, he and his family were in a near fatal car accident in 2008. Now he likes to write—unhinged—and continues to do so at his Knoxville, TN home with his wife, two daughters, and two cats. When he is not actively writing stories, he likes to play video games on both PC and console. His most popular played game being World of Warcraft, which is responsible for him meeting his wife of nine years.

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      The Lodestone Files - Robert J. S. T. McCartney

      The Lodestone Files

      The Things in the Shadows

      Among Us: Contact, Assimilation, Control, Extermination Series
      Book One

      Robert J. S. T. McCartney

      Copyright © 2010 — 2016 by A.B.Normal Publishing and Media Group, Robert J. T. McCartney

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission.

      A.B.Normal Publishing and Media Group

      PO Box 31311

      Knoxville, TN 37930

      www.abnormalpublishing.com

      Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living, or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      Book Layout © 2014 BookDesignTemplates.com

      The Lodestone Files / Robert J. S. T. McCartney — First Print, 2016

      DEDICATION

      To my wife, Karyn, and my kids, Zelda, and Aeris.

      Do what you want to do with your life. Go ahead, dream big, make plans, but get off your hands and make them happen. — Robert J. S. T. McCartney

      Be anything but normal.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      CHAPTER ONE

      THE SUN HAD already begun its descent upon the horizon. The stars ignited across the fading daylight and exploded into the template of the nightly majesty, which was no stranger. The moon high, full, and brilliant, even amidst the presently elegant summer evening. The skyline articulated with precise brushstrokes of pink, peach, and azure. The white caps of the clouds radiated a magnificence about them. If anything, it reminded him of his mother’s valued peaches and cream milkshake, with the sun as the almighty cherry. While deep on the horizon’s depths, there laid a siege of dark, foreboding, and ever persistent storm clouds—tainted, with something evil that weaved its magic in the neighboring county.

      Tonight’s forecast calls for a high chance of rain. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the following counties— The newscaster’s voice cut short as the signal gave way to the classical static snow.

      Idris sighed as he readjusted his blue jean jacket, and fixed his black t-shirt. His hands dug around in the pockets of his dark blue jeans; running the loose change through his fingertips, while continuing to look at the morbid onslaught that seemed to creep closer with every passing moment. He was in awe at the traditional night and day that was transpiring before him. He roamed a bit further, standing under the covered fuel pump of the gas station, and took note of the swirling maelstrom of clouds that slowly wandered by on high. It had been some years since he last saw something of this magnitude, and he then remembered—death.

      He glanced over at the old crimson rich fuel pump that stood proudly, garnished by a circle of different types of rocks, and various flowers in the small little acreage. At the base was a white cross with a white-flowered wreath that hung on it. Along the side of the fuel pump in beautiful white calligraphy

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