Books in the Darkness series

Addiction. Redemption. Loss. After the death of his brother Tim, a desperate Kane is unraveling, plagued with hallucinations and strange visions of Stygian monstrosities and the undoing of the world. The grandest culmination of these is the forthcoming discovery of a mysterious monolith that borders reality and the absurd.After a baffling event on the fifth anniversary of his brother's death, Kane reluctantly embarks on a journey with his estranged sister to find the monolith and search for answers. What Kane doesn't know is that he's set himself on a crash course to discover truths that extend beyond the cosmic significance his visions may hold. Those that lie within himself.

Shadows of recent events follow James as he leaves Alaska, traveling through Canada with a group of strangers until a detour brings them to a house nestled deep in the forests of British Columbia. Haunted by his failures, conflict and mystery threaten to pull James into the very thing he's been trying to run from. When the fate of other people's lives are affected by the choices James makes, will he take a side in a conflict he doesn't fully understand, or will he look to the road again, distancing himself from any involvement, and the potential consequences it brings.

Blake Brennan's past is cloudy at best, but when she decides to uncover what happened when she was a child, she finds herself getting pulled deeper into a web of lies. When her loved ones are threatened, she must decide if finding the truth about her family is worth losing the ones who have always been there for her. This is book 1 of a duet. Book 2 is Darkness Before Dawn.