Books with author D. C. Miller

By the time he was five, Derrick knew there was something different about his life. His home, for example, gave off some special energy that he clearly felt. His mother explains to Derrick and his siblings that her unusual visitors and older relatives are familiar with the history of his house. Even though he lives in a center city neighborhood, nature seems to intervene on a regular basis.Derrick later realizes that this phenomenon is not exclusive to one particular area; both nature and the supernatural seem to follow him wherever he goes.In his adult life Derrick has physical encounters with a Wicca practitioner, different species of vermin, animals, a haunted woman, and an evil train.After Derrick purchases the building and medical practice of his brother, certain odd things begin to occur. He learns about Dr. Schadt, the prior physician who is now deceased, then Myra, the haunted woman, is led to Derrick under mysterious circumstances. Her presence in the building has escalated Dr. Schadt's activities especially after Myra's disastrous séance. His antics end up creating concern for their safety.The author attempts to show how the negative entity is entwined in the daily routine of the building. Certain factors are discussed for the reader to surmise their own opinion as to why these true events unfolded.This book is a collection of true tales that happened to the author, his family, friends, and loved ones…. So far.

Seventeen-year-old Jez Parker knows what Hell is like. She spends ten months a year in it in the form of a life with her abusive mother and stepfather. Two months out of the year, she lives with her werewolf dad and twin brother.Abused and beaten she’s ordered by her mother and stepfather to find information on her dad’s werewolf pack – The Small Town Pack. Vowing to protect her dad, brother, and newly bonded mate, Jez asks for help from the Cloverfields, a supernatural clan that helps those in need.Cole Patrick thought his life ended when he was told Jez had died in a house fire. Now that she’s alive and back in his life, he believes he can keep his feelings for her a secret from his best friend, who happens to be her twin, as well as from her dad. He soon realizes something weird is happening within his pack and that Jez is being targeted. He knows she’s hiding something and he vowed to protect her.But when secrets are revealed and lives are betrayed, will they have a future together?

From 14 to 25-years-old, Sam Martin's an afterthought in Nimbus. All this world wants is for him to leave, for him to go outside the steel doors and survive in the vicious, untamed wilderness for 11 years. After all, every person who has ever called Nimbus home has done it. Every. Last. One. Or so he was told.Outside the walls of Nimbus, Sam's faced with horrors unimaginable to someone who's spent his whole life stuck behind the steel. Now, he must fend off evils he's never seen, horrors he never could have expected—all while fighting himself. After all, he's just a kid. A kid who never knew how heavy fate could truly be.

Three members of Mather Air Force Base's security force return from Lake Tahoe after locating a stolen nuclear device planted in a casino by a deep-cover, ex-Cold War Soviet spy. Disarmed with the help of two agents from a clandestine National Security Agency team, the bomb is safely back at the base.The steady routine of guarding a military installation is no sooner back to normal when Lieutenant Colonel Bart Winfield, code-named Tupelo in the elite circle of global clandestine operatives, is surprised by a visit from Mary Benson, lead agent of a task force urgently searching for two other missing nuclear weapons—as well as the ultra-secret Black Star System.The three members of the Mather team and Bart's wife—a former OSI agent—are whisked away by helicopter to the West Coast Headquarters of the National Security Agency for a meeting with a hidden agenda and faced with a life-changing decision that involves ex-Spetsnaz smugglers and a shadowy rogue spy ring.They have little time to prepare before they are sent undercover in Seawind Bay, a sleepy coastal village with a checkered past, where secrets from a by-gone era mix with the contemporary high-tech computer world. Threats come at them from all directions and they must sort out who among the townspeople they can trust.When two of their members are kidnapped, they work feveriously to rescue them. The puzzle of how a building with the word Druid carved in stone above a door fits into a spider web of government corruption and international terrorism is mixed with an unusually high number of deaths from seemingly unrelated accidents.

As the product of a forbidden alliance between the elemental Mystics and the wand carrying Wielders—two distinct, often feuding, magical realms—acceptance is something fourteen-year-old Abby has fought with for the last four years. When an alliance is formed between the Mystic Dancers and the Wielder’s, Abby is given the chance to live with a Wielder’s family and attend Wielders Academy of Magical Arts. In order to do so, she first has make three promises to the Mystic Dancers leader … Tell no one she's half Mystic, that her father is a Wielder who is also a wanted criminal, or that she can transform into anything she wants. Her day-to-day life of secrets, school work, and dancing is interrupted when her mother’s murder case goes to trial. The Mystics believe they finally caught the killer, who happens to be the father of one of Abby’s new friends. Abby has a choice to make – reveal her secrets, or let a man she knows is innocent go to prison.

Entrusted with protection of the last line of defense for the nation’s nuclear secrets, the BSOG has moved from Northern California to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado. They are hunting down the ex-Cold War deep-cover Soviet spy who has stolen nuclear weapons, including an ultra-secret BlackStar device.What does the Consortium plan to do with the stolen nukes? Why are they building a secret underground site in Colorado? Can Colonel Bart Winstead and his elite team bring the situation under control before a conflagration of epic proportions ensues? "It's not the schedule, so much as it is dodging the four Bs...bullets, bombs and booby traps...and the biggest...bad guys."

How far would you go to be free—to make your own choices without being subjected to punishment for doing what you felt was right? Could you kill for it? After being abandoned by her father as a child, Aster spent ten years of her life as a servant for the leader’s House in the broken city of New Bethel. She’d known, even as a child, that the cities of her world were corrupt places with human monsters—assassins—running rampant between their high walls. Thinking everything will remain the same as it always has there, Aster is startled to discover that one day . . . the cycle breaks. As a young new leader takes a strange and—at times—horrifying interest in her, will she be capable of discovering the reasons behind his actions and orders? In a world where nothing is as it seems and all things are never anywhere near as simple as they appear at first glance, will she be capable of making the distinction between what is real and what is not? Will she find anyone at all she can trust? More importantly . . . Does she have the strength to do what is necessary to survive in a world filled with evil?

The Phoenix Ruby was enchanted for a queen, corrupted by greed, and inherited by a warrior. Raised by a legendary swordsman, Keatep Brendagger is one of Roanfire’s most promising soldiers. Brave, loyal, and a bit headstrong, she is the best choice to escort a noblewoman to the capitol of Roanfire for the prince’s coronation. But when a repeating nightmare infests her sleep, leaving her with blood dripping from her nose and fire burning in her bones, she loses focus. With her career as a soldier in jeopardy, the Leviathan Pirates attack her home, and she’s framed for murder.Hunted, betrayed, and reviled by her own people, Kea comes face to face with the source of her nightmares – the Phoenix Ruby. It is a curse far greater than she could have imagined, one that would leave the whole of Roanfire in ashes—and her, dead, if she does not resist.***With high-stakes action, cunning pirates, forbidden attraction, and a truly ruthless villain, The Phoenix Host is an unforgettable tale of heroism, love, and self-sacrifice. The Phoenix Host is the first story of The Roanfire Saga, a Young Adult fantasy novel meant for anyone 12 and up!

Escaping is hard. Surviving is harder.Aster has lived a life of servitude for ten years, but now she is determined to be free. Countless Reapers stand between her and the gate to New Bethel, and more await just past the walls. She’s spent her life being invisible, but in a world full of assassins, becoming close to any of them only makes you a target for the rest. Every step she takes puts her in more danger, closer to Reapers with unknown intentions. Unexpected friendships develop, but can she really trust any Reaper when they’ve all been trained to deceive? Aster and Chase know what awaits them outside the city, but can they get past it?In Aster’s journey for freedom, she learns there are some things in life you can’t ever truly escape from, and that some steps can’t ever be taken back.