Cookbook author Jaick Connally has a phobia about lightning storms. He feels safe in the middle of New Jersey. Then he inherits a beachfront condo in Hollywood, Florida.Reluctantly, he moves to live in the condo. A week later, Jaick sees a huge dark shape swallow up someone before his eyes during a thunderstorm. The police call it a simple disappearance, but Jaick feels there's more to it.A chance remark at a local diner drives Jaick to look into another person who disappeared during a storm. Jaick discovers that 125 people have vanished along the Florida East Coast over the past 40 years. No one realizes they have a single cause because the killer moves between Daytona and Miami.Jaick runs into a librarian named Elaine Brewster at the Agate City library. She takes an immediate interest in the disappearances and Jaick. Can Jaick uncover the cause of the disappearances before he becomes a victim himself? Classic Trekker, Bad Movie Connoisseur, Amateur Cryptozoologist, MST3K Fan, Author, Game Designer, Village Resident #42, Ripperologist, Dad.An avid reader since the age of 7, he read the Classics of Science Fiction and Horror with growing fascination. Among his favorites are H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, Robert E. Howard and Richard Matheson.In college, Tom wrote his first serious short story, "Night of Fate," which featured John Pentgram, an Anomalist who gets bitten by a werewolf. Since then, he has written several dozen short stories and six novels

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