Bio
BESTSELLING PARANORMAL
THRILLER AUTHOR MICHEAL RIVERS won 1st Place Runner up at The Paranormal Awards
2014 and has won Supernatural Book of the Year 2012.
Micheal Rivers is the
pseudonym for Mike Baugham. His Cherokee heritage prompted him to honor his
great-grandfather and write under the name of Rivers. He grew up near the Outer
Banks of North Carolina. His love of the sea and all it has to offer was the driving
force of his first novel The Black Witch. As a child, he became aware of the supernatural world due
to several experiences. A recognized authority as a paranormal investigator with
more than thirty years of research, teaching classes and giving speeches
provides his readers with some of his experiences woven into his paranormal
thrillers. He is the lead investigator for the Smokey Mountain Ghost Trackers.
His works include
supernatural thrillers, literary fiction and ghost story anthologies published
by Schiffer Publishing. Micheal is a USMC
veteran and served during Vietnam. The passions in his life are his wife,
family, Boxer Delilah affectionately known as DeeDee, and the great outdoors.
Book Blurb
Verliege, a
chilling paranormal and international crime mystery, begins at Arlette Mansion
in the mountains of West Virginia. Prisoner and author Adrian Bolt was
transferred there accused of the horrific murder of his wife. She was found
brutally murdered by an antique sword. His conviction by a German court was as
swift as the sword that killed her. Adrian had not spoken since her death
…until… Dr. James Pellitere was able to break his silence.
A deal
was offered to Pellitere. Traveling to Germany with a paranormal investigative
team they searched for evidence that would clear Adrian and prove him innocent.
While at the castle, Pellitere is confronted by the supernatural residents. A
battle begins over the secret of the nine and a prophecy is in jeopardy of
becoming unfulfilled.
Praise
for Verliege
“I was reminded of Gilman's "The Yellow
Wallpaper" (1892) and William Hope Hodgson's accounting of the final
voyage of the Mortzestus (1909), and the telling of Lovecraft's "The
Statement of Randolph Carter" (1919). Such is the narrative of this in
comparison with these types of confessional stories. Like Gilman, Hodgson, and
Lovecraft, the richness of dialog is not lacking in Rivers's prose. The
creatures of Verliege have some similarities with Tim Powers's nephilim in The
Stress of Her Regard, but without the vampiric tendencies. I hope the reader
realizes that I am tossing out these comparisons to illustrate the depth of
craft honed in Verliege. Rivers does not so much stand upon the shoulders of of
these giants as he rubs elbows with them.”
- Amy K. Marshall, Staff Reviewer, Dark River Press
- Amy K. Marshall, Staff Reviewer, Dark River Press
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