SHALLOW BASIN:
First book of fiction horror trilogy by Suzanne Cowles, best-selling author and screenwriter. 
SYNOPSIS:
Senior year of High School is supposed to be a fun time; the annual bonfire by the lake, prom, turning eighteen and graduation. But twisted relationships, family secrets and lies lead to dire consequences in the small southern town of Stray Oaks. Beau Boudreaux's family and friends will suffer when the town witch and her clan lose control of the urban legend and no one will be safe from the mayhem of the Creepler once it is unleashed on mankind.
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CHARACTERS:
PROTAGONIST: Meet Beau Boudreaux, high school senior in the southern town of Stray Oaks, Louisiana. He is the son of local famous bass angler, Buck Boudreaux and the preacher's daughter, Kacie Boudreaux. He is a cute popular boy who has the affections of Saylor, his sweetheart since grade school. Beau frequently consults his best friend Riley Daigle for support in dealing with his overbearing parents. Passionate about photography, he wants to go to art college but everyone else has different plans for him some of which are sinister.
EXCERPT: "I love landscape photography. It's what I want to do after high school, but my parents don't agree. Instead, they want me to be a blood-sucking leech."
RANDOM FACTS:
- I've seen the Creepler roaming around Creekwoods.
- I feel more comfortable in the woods by the creek than with the other kids at the lake.
- I don't see eye-to-eye with my father.
- I love Saylor, but don't think we will be together forever.
- An invisible force is pulling me away.
CONTAGONIST: Meet Saylor Landry, high school senior in the southern town of Stray Oaks, Louisiana. She is the daughter of parents who travel around the US attending art shows. She is an attractive vivacious red-head with dreams of becoming a movie star. She is also the captain of the cheer leading team and her popular friends want to know when she and Beau are getting married. Saylor is always concerned with her appearance and wears designer clothes. She has no idea of the terrors that await, which will change her life forever.
EXCERPT: "Some day when I'm rich and famous, you can be my paparazzo and follow me around."
RANDOM FACTS:
- Everyone thinks my life is so easy and pampered, but they don't know the truth.
- I have a surprise for Beau's 18th birthday.
- I'm sick of taking care of my adopted brother.
- I'm going to win an Oscar.
- I sense Beau is pulling away from me.
ANTAGONIST: Meet Adele Crenshaw, the reclusive local witch of Stray Oaks, Louisiana. Her family owned the massive plantation before the town was chartered. She has magical powers passed down by LeCretia, a Native American princess. As the leader of a small secret cult, she protects the town by performing rituals that keep the Creepler swamp monster confined to the woods. Without her care the town would be at risk. Tragedy struck her family and altered generational plans. Racing against time she must set the order right and conspires against Beau.
EXCERPT: "Let me give you an appraisal of the situation. You have until the count of three to get in your fancy car and scurry back to the North."
RANDOM FACTS:
- I'm protective of my land and my family.
- I love my black cat named Midnight.
- I can make things happen by just thinking about it.
- My husband Earl annoyed me, so I took care of him.
- I am the invisible force.
Experience the lyrical writing style of debut author Suzanne Cowles in book excerpts from Shallow Basin, book #1 of a horror trilogy.
This intricate story is woven around 64 people living in a small southern town, while an evil monster lurks in the surrounding woods.
EXCERPT PAGE 6: MEET THE CREEPLER:
The hunter became aware of a maniacal presence. Something was behind him that had not been there before. Losing focus on the bird, he warily turned around. A terrifying misshapen figure met his apprehension.
Before his eyes could process the visual overload, a razor webbed claw thrashed through the air knocking him into the sludge. Forcefully strewn blood droplets spattered the landscape.
A flash of sinister eyes and savage jaws descended upon his paralyzed body. Brackish waves crashed in the tumultuous battle.
The Creepler made a recurring sound, like a symphony of male Cicadas hissing in the afternoon. It screamed and shrieked between going under water.
A scaly appendage knocked the crossbow from the hunter’s grasp. The weapon floated for a second, then sunk into the blackness.
He gasped for air as he struggled to get his head above water, before plunging back down beneath the murk. The duckweed spread covering the stagnant water’s surface, leaving no trace of a disturbance. Only silence and dead calm remained.
THE ECLIPSE OF A BLACK SUN:
Short story by Suzanne Cowles, best-selling author and screenwriter. Fiction laced with physics and cosmology in a Sci-Fi tale, involving an unsolved crime mystery and lots of people conspiring against one another. 
SYNOPSIS:
Conspiracy shadows a Medical Examiner in a new thrilling science fiction short story. Dr. Singer races against time to solve an intriguing mystery – why are healthy people suddenly dying?
Meanwhile, local beauty queen Dracilla plots revenge against her philandering husband Neal, who runs a powerful pharma corp selling miracle dreams.
A secret Black Sun Cult and an unidentified substance wreak havoc on a quiet Middle America city during a rare solar eclipse, while a mysterious voice on the phone guides the good doctor toward a shocking conclusion.
CHARACTERS:
Protagonist: Dr. Wendy Singer, Medical Examiner at Holy Cross Hospital.
Antagonist: Dracilla Ditmar, Owner of Perfect U gym, x-beauty queen, wife of Neal Ditmar.
Dopapro: At the heart of the conspiracy a wonder drug of Genesis Biotech.
The Black Sun Cult: uses the secret occult symbol of the Schwarze Sonne.
EXCERPT:
“What am I supposed to do with all these bodies?” Karl said.
“Put ‘em in the overflow,” Tyrell said.
“Did that already.”
“Then send ‘em over to County General.”
“Man, where have you been? That was last Monday. They won’t take anymore.” Karl swung open the insulated aluminum door of the Morgue’s deep freeze to reveal piles of rotting corpses, mile-high, all gleaming in a gelatinous residue.
Tyrell shook his head in disbelief. “Don’t make no sense. Why are they oozing like that in here?” The thermometer read minus four degrees.
“I get the willies from that putrid smell. Shut the door. It’s time for our break anyway.”
As Karl and Tyrell sauntered out of the Depository, the Medical Examiner, Dr. Wendy Singer brushed past. Feeling immense pressure from the Holy Cross Hospital Administrator to solve Pleasantville’s latest mystery, no one knew why the bustling Middle America city’s residents were dropping dead like ducks at a carnival shooting range.
