Books published by publisher Charles R Markussen

The small city of Frogmorton, Wisconsin, is the home of the Christmas Store, a mazelike collection of interconnected buildings housing an Italian bakery, a florist, a grocery … and many other businesses, including a shop with the finest holiday decorations in the Central Time Zone.The Christmas Store also provides miracles.Not thunderous, earth-shattering, apocalyptic miracles, but those small, modest miracles that often pass for good luck or coincidence.Eddie Barnes is a newcomer to town. After a horrific car accident left his mother near death, and after his heartless father abandoned him, Eddie was compelled to move from Los Angeles to Frogmorton, where he lives with his uncle, and is now the ‘new kid’ at Frogmorton High, beginning his junior year.Lonely and anxious at first, Eddie begins to establish relationships with several students that he comes to think of as ‘near-friends.’ He also engages in an unusual, frightening, and awkward relationship with a rather unique senior at the high school, Delilah Anderson—‘Del’ to those who would rather not be abused. And Eddie begins to clumsily sense what might lie beyond friendship.But just as Eddie is beginning to feel that Frogmorton is becoming his home, tragedy deals him one more devastating blow. With his faith in life and his hope for the future all but crushed, can the Christmas Store deliver the greatest miracle of all?There are approximately 24,500 words in this e-book (132 pages in the print edition), and an active table of contents for easy chapter selection.

The small city of Frogmorton, Wisconsin, is the home of the Christmas Store, a mazelike collection of interconnected buildings housing an Italian bakery, a florist, a grocery … and many other businesses, including a shop with the finest holiday decorations in the Central Time Zone. The Christmas Store also provides miracles. Not thunderous, earth-shattering, apocalyptic miracles, but those small, modest miracles that often pass for good luck or coincidence. Eddie Barnes is a newcomer to town. After a horrific car accident left his mother near death, and after his heartless father abandoned him, Eddie was compelled to move from Los Angeles to Frogmorton, where he lives with his uncle, and is now the ‘new kid’ at Frogmorton High, beginning his junior year. Lonely and anxious at first, Eddie begins to establish relationships with several students that he comes to think of as ‘near-friends.’ He also engages in an unusual, frightening, and awkward relationship with a rather unique senior at the high school, Delilah Anderson—‘Del’ to those who would rather not be abused. And Eddie begins to clumsily sense what might lie beyond friendship. But just as Eddie is beginning to feel that Frogmorton is becoming his home, tragedy deals him one more devastating blow. With his faith in life and his hope for the future all but crushed, can the Christmas Store deliver the greatest miracle of all?

The destruction of existence—infinity’s end—grows steadily nearer. A small victory was won when Eddie Barnes and Del Anderson, friends from Frogmorton, Wisconsin, prevented the devastation threatened by an artifact from another reality: a gold pocket watch. And though they succeeded in eliminating one dangerous intrusion, they had not halted the bleeding—a contaminating transference of objects and events. After surviving this first struggle, Eddie and Del decide to take a unique ‘vacation’ to a very special reality. It’s 1971, and as the two enjoy a well-deserved rest, they also continue to learn a tremendous amount about life, themselves, and a relationship beyond friendship. But as summer nears, both begin to sense the inevitable resumption of the breakdown between realities. Returning to his home in 2010, Eddie makes an extraordinary discovery: There is a duality to the universe. Realities exist in pairs, one on either side of the mysterious space between. While traveling in one of these mirror worlds, Eddie enlists the aid of a surprising ally, and begins to realize the true nature and extent of the threat. Eddie and his friends also discover a trove of arcane papers indicating that a man from the past experimented with traveling and was tinkering with the physics that governs the universe. Now they must desperately seek to understand the possible connection between this man and the bleeding, and to uncover the secrets that will allow them to prevent universal annihilation. But despite their renewed efforts, the bleeding accelerates towards a spectacular climax. With all other options failing, Del must make the most difficult, terrifying decision of her life, and she must make it alone. Through Silvered Glass is the second book in the Infinity’s End series.