Books by Douglas Todt

Having multiple personalities sucks. That's how Jennifer Saunders feels even before the brutal day that would change her life forever, a day that would finish with her friends murdered, ghosts talking to her, and telekinesis a part of her everyday life.Not that Jennifer's a stranger to trauma. Having seen her best friend murdered and dismembered at a young age, Jennifer's mind long ago split off a child persona to cope with the trauma.Now following in the footsteps of her deceased father, Jennifer begins cloning experiments with a comatose alien. When the alien Insectia awakens, Jennifer survives the attack and is surprised to find two other ghost-like survivors. Their souls imprinted on her psyche, Jennifer understands she's their link to survival. An ordinary person couldn't cope with a pair of ghosts. Luckily, Jennifer is able to understand that these two allies must be integrated into her life just as her child persona had been a few years earlier.Aided by her spiritual guides, Jennifer enlists the physical help of two other friends, biology professor Sheila Warren and undergrad Brent Jensen. Together, the unique team seeks vengeance against the alien that slaughtered Jennifer's friends.

A dismembered floater is the last thing Northville Detective Dan Gold wants to find on a dreary autumn day. Kelly, a young runaway, discovered a gruesome corpse in the midst of her own suicide attempt. Dan suspects she has further information. Fortunately, Kelly is taken to Jenny's Shelter, a shelter for homeless children run by Dan's old acquaintance Jennifer Collier. Jenny built the shelter with her husband's money and is admired by everyone in the community. Dan finds himself drawn to Jenny in romantic ways. Despite Jenny's marriage and the protests of Gold's partner, Xander Nicholson, the relationship grows deeper. But as the relationship grows, it leads Dan to more bodies, more crimes, and some very unpleasant possibilities about Jenny's real work. Aided only by Xander and the children at the shelter, Dan works through layers of secrets, deceptions, and half-truths to discover why his town is full of corpses.