Robert Swartwood Books in Order

After a gunman shoots him in a convenience store, David Beveridge survives thanks to a mysterious silver ring he found earlier that night. The ring can restore life, and something very dark wants it back.

Ben Anderson falls asleep beside his wife in Pennsylvania and wakes up alone in a California motel. His family is missing, a bloody message is on the door, and a man named Simon has instructions if Ben wants them back.

Holly Lin is a nanny by day and a government assassin by night, until a mission goes wrong and turns deeply personal. To finish the job, she must face the past and travel toward enemies who badly underestimate her.

This lean collection gathers twenty-six very short stories that move from ordinary unease to the surreal. It is a good snapshot of Swartwood's compressed style and his love of endings that leave a sting.

A writer still reeling from his wife's disappearance meets an old woman with a strange request. The encounter leads him toward a quiet, creeping evil and opens a door into the world of The Calling.

After his parents are murdered, Christopher Myers is sent to the small town of Bridgton, where a local secret and an ancient evil are waiting. Family grief and supernatural dread drive this dark first novel.

In a future where the animated dead rule and the living are feared, Hunter Conrad makes one merciful choice and pays for it. The novel later returned under the title Land of the Dead.

Five years after her husband is exposed as a serial killer, Elizabeth Piccioni is living under a new identity when her son is abducted. To get him back, she must return to the life she ran from and race a brutal deadline.

Ben Anderson is no longer searching for his old life. Now he is fighting alongside Carver Ellison's people, chasing a cryptic clue that may lead to the Inner Circle and to answers that could get them all killed.

In the summer of 1922, young Ethan's small-town life in Benton, Pennsylvania, starts to darken. First the cats vanish, then the girls, and soon the horror around him becomes impossible to ignore.

This story collection brings together eerie, imaginative tales about children who see what adults cannot, haunted places, strange dimensions, and lives that go sharply off course. It shows Swartwood working across horror, suspense, and dark fantasy.

On the run through the Utah desert, Clay Miller and George Hitchens find a wounded boy who can only scratch three chilling letters in the dirt. What follows is a weird western nightmare that keeps tightening.

Free at last, Nova Bartkowski sets out across America in a classic Mustang and winds up stranded in the Nevada desert town of Parrot Spur. The town's mine, veterans, and secrets soon make it clear he is in real trouble.

A young man uncovers his grandfather's shocking secret and gets pulled into a search that may matter far beyond one family. Short, strange, and horror-tinged, it delivers its surprises fast.

John Smith notices that a series of violent acts do not feel random, and he is right. As he digs deeper, he becomes the next target in a thriller about engineered violence and hidden control.

A writer's relationship with inspiration becomes its own kind of nightmare in this compact suspense story. The muse at the center is needy, hungry, and far more dangerous than she first seems.

John Chambers gave up everything to guard a woman the world believes died years ago. As she lies dying in a small Pennsylvania town, old loyalties, lost love, and buried secrets start closing in.

Ashley is taken hostage by two escaped criminals and quickly learns that obedience will not be enough to save her. She has to outthink them, protect her family, and find a way to survive on her own terms.

Seventeen-year-old Holly Lin is kidnapped in Oahu and forced into a fight for survival. This prequel shows the fear, grit, and first hard steps that push her toward the life she will later lead.

Elijah Shepherd has spent decades hiding the fact that he ages slowly and heals with unnatural speed. After an attempt on his life, he returns to New York to find his son, Temple, and uncovers a conspiracy with global stakes.

After killing Javier Diaz, Holly Lin heads to Mexico to stop his father before revenge reaches her family. What should be a clean mission turns messier, darker, and far more personal by the hour.

Holly Lin has built a quiet new life in a small Texas town, until a blood-soaked woman thrusts a baby into her arms and dies. Within minutes, Holly is pulled back toward the violent world she thought she left.

Tobias has left Wayward Pines and is headed west on a mission with little more than a few supplies and weapons. Abbies are everywhere, and the dangers outside the town may be worse than he expected.

In a future where the animated dead hunt the living, Conrad is one of the best Hunters alive. When he spares a human child, he sets off a desperate fight to save his son and perhaps much more.

Ben Anderson is dragged back into the deadly game he swore he would never play again. With old enemies waiting and the stakes higher than ever, the final book drives toward a brutal reckoning.

Nova Bartkowski comes to Remington, Montana, to confront the father who abandoned him, but finds violence waiting first. The more he digs into the town's secrets, the clearer it becomes that he has walked into a deadly conspiracy.

A Las Vegas vacation turns into a nightmare when a businessman wakes in a strange hotel room beside a dead woman. His attempt to run becomes the start of a violent setup with no easy escape.

Daniel Burke thought he was done after avenging his brother. Instead, he is hunted by his old team, branded a traitor by the CIA, and forced into one more mission to expose the real enemy.