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You may find yourself asking, "What is this series?" Well, here's some information to enlighten you. The Good Shepherds series is about a race of people who have the ability to see the souls of murder victims. When people die a natural death their souls move on to the other side. When they're murdered, however, their souls become stuck, alone and suffering the pain of their deaths, in a half-life between earth and the other side. They can't be set free until a pair of Soul Shepherds Witnesses the circumstances of their death and then opens a gateway to the other side for them to cross over. That gateway doesn't always lead to heaven, however. Sometimes it leads to the dark, burning, stinking pit of hell. Sometimes it leads to the misty gray garden of Asphodel, a place that is better than hell, but far, far from being heavenly.

Those poor souls who are not fortunate enough to have been sent to the other side by a Soul Shepherd pair slowly change as their Death Cord (a spiritual anchor that binds them to earth, gold and emerald for males, gold and crimson for females) degenerates. When that Death Cord expires these souls take physical form again in the shape of what the Shepherds call Unredeemables. It has long been held among Shepherdkind that Unredeemables cannot be Witnessed and sent to the afterlife, but young Maya Ford proves them wrong in the first book.

A war is brewing between the Soul Shepherds and an ancient, dark entity they call the Rogue. Maya, and her Shepherd soul mate Mark, find themselves caught up in that war, and learn that not only does the Rogue want to destroy Mark and take Maya for his own, even their own people prove to be a threat as some of the Elders, the Shepherd Ruling Council, have a long history of sacrificing their own to appease the beast that is the Rogue...

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Maya Ford has been able to see the souls of murder victims since she witnessed her brother's death as a tender youth. Since then she has spent her life with a deep secret: the souls of those who were wrongfully taken from life come to her for help.

Unfortunately she hasn't the ability to save them. Maya believes she alone can see the dead until her parents move to the idyllic backwoods town of Coalton, West Virginia. She meets Mark Wilson, a handsome young man who can also see the souls of the dead. They not only share in this ability but they learn that there is an entire secret society of people with the ability to communicate with the lost souls of the murdered and send them to the other side for either eternal rest or, conversely, eternal punishment.

This discovery has a downside for Maya and Mark: war brewing between a malevolent entity the Soul Shepherds call the Rogue. His is a soul so old, so evil, that not even the Shepherds know his origins. All they know is that he is a threat to not only their way of life, but to mankind as a whole. Buy Here for all e-formats. Amazon ||  Barnes& Noble

Nothing happens by accident in the life of Maya Ford. As she begins to get to know Leigh and Bobby, Mark's best, and only, friends while growing up in Coalton, she learns a dark secret that Leigh's family has kept hidden for decades.

After Leigh is murdered by the Specter of a relative Mark and Bobby agree to go to any length to save her soul. This includes calling in the necromancer, Sansera, a woman with many secrets of her own.

Using her help to save Leigh, and later Maya's own father from a vicious attack by the crooked local police, will have deadly consequences for everyone later down the line, and will also bring them one step closer to discovering the true identity of the Rogue.
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There are consequences to be had when an empty vessel is possessed by Harry Burns, a Hellbound soul, who goes on the attack against what is left of his family. As Mark and Maya meet new Shepherds, and learn to advance their abilities, tragedy strikes: Mark is left almost powerless from a mysterious attack at the site of a massacre at a nursing home. The attack seems to be an unfortunate accident until Mark vanishes, leaving Maya and her mentors convinced the Rogue has his hand in everything that has happened so far.

Assistance, however, is not what they receive. To their horror they learn that the Elders, who have left the safety to Genesis, the Shepherd homeland, reveal that rather than save Mark and Maya they wish to sacrifice the young Shepherd pair to the Rogue to keep the peace, something they've done many times in the past.

Now Mark and Maya are left to battle two terrible threats: The Rogue and the Elders. Secrets are revealed, a ruthless killer of children is brought to justice, and Mark, Maya, and their mentors are all pushed to their limits just to stay alive.
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The final battle between the Shepherds and the Rogue has come. Only one will emerge victorious. The final book of the series, The Elder Summons, takes Mark, Maya, and the others to Genesis, the Shepherd Homeland.

Mark and Maya prepare for the final confrontation with Cain. Their love is put to the test as Mark does everything in his power to protect Maya from the truth: It is unlikely he will survive the final battle with Cain. The Elders come together to work with Mark and Abel to defeat Cain, and an unlikely hero emerges when Maya puts her faith in someone she never thought she could trust. Mark, Maya, and Abel prepare for the greatest Witnessing in the history of mankind looms, and when the dust settles only one will remain standing to tell the tale. Buy Here for all e-formats. Amazon ||  Barnes& Noble