Product Description: Expanding on the concept behind Byron Preiss's Weird Heroes from the 1970s, George R. R. Martin's Wild Card series, and Michael Chabon's McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, The Darker Mask is a collection of original prose stories recalling the derring-do of the beings we call Superheroes and the worlds they fight to save...read more

Still reeling from the discovery that her own lover had been a sociopathic killer, FBI Special Agent Angela Bivens is suddenly thrust into the heart of a deadly new case, a series of murders involving prominent African-American leaders, deaths linked by an ancient curse originating in South African folk tradition. 25,000 first printing.

FBI Special Agent Angela Bivens is called in by the D.C. police to help solve the brutal murders of two teenage girls, killings that could be tied to the bizarre executions of rival drug dealers and that could have links to her own life and to her love affair with Trey Williams, a prominent D.C. attorney with a drug-addicted twin brother. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.