S.K. Epperson
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S. K. Epperson is the author of Green Lake, The Neighborhood, Brother Lowdown, The Moons of Summer, Betsy Klausmeyer's Cellar, Borderland, The Eris Renard series featuring Winter Slocum, Ronja in the Woods, The Lost People, Finding Madeleine, and many other novels and novellas.
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House 400
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Paranormal Suspense
Every restaurant has its problem people, just like every block has a neighbor with a scary dad, a too quiet mom, and weird kids. House 400 is what happens when that family owns the restaurant. And yes, sometimes the whole neighborhood is in on it. 
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Eris Renard
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Suspense Thriller
A decade after the murderous events at Green Lake, former conservation officer Eris Renard finds his life’s direction has changed, not of his own choosing but due to the obsessions and brutal tactics of others. He meets a gravel-voiced finder of missing persons named Winter Slocum and through him a family of Scandinavian women with a traumatized deputy attached to their case. The reclusive Eris soon finds himself caught up in a far ranging rescue that reunites him with a half brother and a mother he planned never to see again. The past complicates the present, and to endure what’s being asked of him he’ll need to forgive some and open his hands to others. He’ll cope in his own implacable fashion, but first he has to ensure everyone survives someone called The Magician, and then somehow capture a kidnapper about to be abducted himself. By aliens. 
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Ronja in the Woods
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Paranormal Suspense
Though five months pregnant, Ronja Haugen eagerly accompanies her sister Bara and their company of friends in a quest to find a child gone missing from a campground restroom near the Rocky Mountain National Park. Ronja learns just how much of a caveman the tall, silent Eris Renard can be after they reach the site of the disappearance and encounter a dark and menacing force of nature alien to all of them. Once they get a glimpse of what they’re dealing with, experienced tracker Winter Slocum, former conservation officer Eris, and the other members of the group find themselves forced to reconsider everything they think they know about natural order...and babies. 
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The Lost People
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Paranormal Suspense
Eris returns home from the road to find his half-brother, new dad of twins, Clint, stressed and overworked, taken advantage of by irresponsible employees at the bar, and burdened at home with twice the chores. Kansas friends, Ben and Minda, have moved in next door and welcomed Henny Bedayah and Ben’s former physician father, Reid Cloane, for a test visit to see how they like the area. During Henny’s first venture into new surroundings, she finds herself caught up in a news-making event that puts her life in danger and soon affects everyone in both households, including Winter Slocum and his partner Milla who have traveled from Denver. In the midst of this, Eris is called upon by flighty bar worker Mattie, who claims ravens killed the pet of her new roommate, and Ben’s new construction project opens a door both he and Clint wish had never revealed itself. Ronja and Bara receive news from an old adversary, and Eris’s daughter, Ursa, soon joins the crowd of both expected and unexpected guests, culminating in a visit none of them will soon forget in this fourth book of adventures featuring Eris Renard. 
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Winter Slocum
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Paranormal Suspense
After gruff Winter Slocum, finder of missing persons, gets a new case he calls on the assistance of former conservation officer Eris Renard and the family of friends the two of them developed while rescuing the beautiful Haugen sisters in ERIS RENARD. Ronja and Bara are back, along with Clint Long Elk and Harold Heap of Birds to help Winter solve the disappearance of a Denver woman’s secretive husband and two children. Winter finds himself captivated by his new client and goes to unusual lengths to find answers for her, stumbling into unknown territory with his unusual gift. He finds himself on a frightening journey into the past and struggles to connect the images he sees with events in the present when two men, a gun range owner related to his client, and the contentious leader of a “ragtag group of militiamen” keep popping up to cause problems for the group, one of them going so far as to contact a certain alien abductee for help in getting what he wants. And then Winter’s mother, Heidi, decides to visit her son at his newly inherited home. Absent for over forty years, she wants to know if he can still do that thing with his hands. The touching thing. She’s decided her psychometric son can be useful to her after all. Terrified of what he’s been seeing, and fearful of what comes next, Winter realizes he’s about to take his gift to a new level of intuition and awareness. He’s not entirely sure he wants to go where this is all taking him. It means finding answers, but it also means acknowledging a staggering truth. Good thing he has Eris Renard to lean on. The one person who has never let him down. He’ll need Eris and his friends more than ever before its all over. 
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Finding Madeleine
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Paranormal Suspense
News that Madeleine Heron and her husband Ishkode Mikom have gone missing in Montana sees Eris, his daughter Ursa, Winter, and Ronja on a journey north to find answers. Winter’s distraction at learning he’s about to become a dad makes things difficult for him when he begins seeing horrifying visions of a dead infant in his dreams, and the more time Eris spends with Ursa, the more evident his feelings for her mother Madeleine become to Ronja. Back in Colorado, a strange and terrifying menace has decided that something in the absent Ursa’s bedroom in the home she shares with her parents is worth his nightly attention, and the retired detective Wendell Forte, Winter’s friend, is asked by Eris to have a look into the situation while the house is empty. Meanwhile, in trying to solve the mystery of the couple’s disappearance, Winter and Ronja stumble across a helicopter crash and attempt to help the survivor, a deaf man whose hands suffer third degree burns. A wild series of circumstances connect those responsible for the crash to one of the missing indigenous women Madeleine and Mikom traveled to Montana to remind legislators about, and a rogue member from a nearby religious colony may hold the answers all of them need. 
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