Novels by Eric Michael Collins

Two roads. A wand. A highway through Hell.

Dark fantasy from a veteran and long-haul trucker. Read Lost Highway and Blooded Wand now.

The books

What is out now, under this name.

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    Dark fantasy · Horror

    Lost Highway

    A Harley. A holy sword. A road through Hell.

    Joe Callahan wanted a quiet ride on his Harley. A long-haul trucker with a troubled marriage and a past he’d rather forget, he never expected the fog. One moment he was carving the backroads of central Pennsylvania near Centralia. The next, the world had changed. The road is broken. The towns are ruins. The sky burns with an underground fire that never died. In 2022 the mines tore open — a Breach straight into Hell. Demons walk. Nightmares hunt in packs. When Joe grabs an old metal crucifix in a crumbling church, a dormant holy sword chooses him. Marked by Heaven and Hell, he has to decide whether to hide with the last survivors or carve a path back to the family he lost. Some doors only open one way. The highway he rides now leads straight through Hell.

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    Dark fantasy

    Blooded Wand

    The Wand chose a kitchen maid.

    In the shadowed halls of Castle Lightmoore, the ancient Wand chooses its bearer once every hundred years. This time, it chose wrong — or did it? Mara has spent ten years as a kitchen maid: head down, hands raw, invisible. On New Year’s Eve the Wand flies across the selection chamber and binds itself to her, a servant with no noble blood and no training. The Lightmoore family is furious. A maid. A bastard. The chosen savior of their line. Some want her dead. One ambitious cousin will stop at nothing to take what he believes is his. Thrust into dangerous magic, bloodline politics, and war with the Dark Elves, Mara must learn to wield a sentient artifact that speaks in feelings, not words. Power has a price. Survival may mean becoming everything she swore she never wanted to be.

The author

Eric Michael Collins

Eric Michael Collins is a U.S. Army veteran, long-haul trucker, and lifelong storyteller. He writes what he knows: grit, faith, loss, and the unlikely people who find each other in the middle of disaster.

Lost Highway puts a Pennsylvania trucker on a Harley through a world the mines tore open. Blooded Wand gives an ancient artifact to a kitchen maid the castle never meant to see.

He publishes under Eric Michael Collins. That is the name on the books.

A rider on a burning highway — the mood of Lost Highway.