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The Unexplainable Collection
This can't POSSIBLY be happening! But it is.
In this collection of four stand-alone suspense novels—each with its own cast, a unique setting and a story unconnected to the other three—all the characters start out believing that the universe operates in a predictable manner, that there are immutable laws and a natural reason for everything. The problem with that thinking is that some things aren’t natural. They’re supernatural. There are forces at work we can’t see, with power we can’t begin to imagine and plans we don’t understand.
What that means is that smack in the middle of their ordinary lives these people will encounter the unexplainable…and it’s always the game-changer.
Black Sunshine Will Gribbins survives a coal mine explosion that kills 27 miners, and for twenty years keeps a secret about another tragedy that occurred in the mine that day after the explosion—a secret that devastates two decades of his life. Now, he has returned home to seek forgiveness and to confess what he did, only to have the fate of another crew of innocent miners placed in his hands. To save them, he must uncover what really happened in a mile-deep hole under Black Mountain twenty years ago, a story told in statues carved by a handicapped boy—that depict the past, the present and the future.
When Butterflies Cry Grayson Addingtom returns from combat in Vietnam to find his wife in his brother’s arms…and a mysterious, battered orphan named Maggie in his living room. When Maggie runs away with Grayson’s two-year-old daughter, Sadie, the waring brothers must team up to look for them. They find Sadie trapped in the rocks out of reach--beneath a dam about to collapse. Grayson will have to watch his little girl drown right before his eyes ... unless the child called Maggie was never really there at all.
The Last Safe Place A psychotic fan stalks author Gabriella Carmichael, determined to take her as his bride and murder her son. She escapes his first attack and runs away with her family to hide in a cabin called St. Elmo’s Fire on Mount Antero in the Colorado Rockies. If he finds them there, only one thing will stand between them and the brutal cruelty of a madman—the power of a 2,000-year-old tree.
Five Days in May A monster twister hurls across the prairie toward a small Oklahoma town where it slams into the lives of four people who have already set up appointments with death in some form that day. One of them is a death row inmate called Princess who has looked into Pastor Mac Mcintosh’s life through the eyes of another person, and who speaks truth into the minister’s heart from an unexplainable goodness in hers. She knows the “Big Ugly” is coming to eat up the world and she tells Mac to run! But it’s too late.
These four books explore the supernatural in everyday life, probe how ordinary people react when they’re confronted with something they flat out can’t explain. Award-winning journalist and best selling author Ninie Hammon creates characters as real as your own family…so when the unexplainable happens to them, you might begin to wonder if it could happen to you, too. And that will keep you turning pages far into the night.
In this collection of four stand-alone suspense novels—each with its own cast, a unique setting and a story unconnected to the other three—all the characters start out believing that the universe operates in a predictable manner, that there are immutable laws and a natural reason for everything. The problem with that thinking is that some things aren’t natural. They’re supernatural. There are forces at work we can’t see, with power we can’t begin to imagine and plans we don’t understand.
What that means is that smack in the middle of their ordinary lives these people will encounter the unexplainable…and it’s always the game-changer.
Black Sunshine Will Gribbins survives a coal mine explosion that kills 27 miners, and for twenty years keeps a secret about another tragedy that occurred in the mine that day after the explosion—a secret that devastates two decades of his life. Now, he has returned home to seek forgiveness and to confess what he did, only to have the fate of another crew of innocent miners placed in his hands. To save them, he must uncover what really happened in a mile-deep hole under Black Mountain twenty years ago, a story told in statues carved by a handicapped boy—that depict the past, the present and the future.
When Butterflies Cry Grayson Addingtom returns from combat in Vietnam to find his wife in his brother’s arms…and a mysterious, battered orphan named Maggie in his living room. When Maggie runs away with Grayson’s two-year-old daughter, Sadie, the waring brothers must team up to look for them. They find Sadie trapped in the rocks out of reach--beneath a dam about to collapse. Grayson will have to watch his little girl drown right before his eyes ... unless the child called Maggie was never really there at all.
The Last Safe Place A psychotic fan stalks author Gabriella Carmichael, determined to take her as his bride and murder her son. She escapes his first attack and runs away with her family to hide in a cabin called St. Elmo’s Fire on Mount Antero in the Colorado Rockies. If he finds them there, only one thing will stand between them and the brutal cruelty of a madman—the power of a 2,000-year-old tree.
Five Days in May A monster twister hurls across the prairie toward a small Oklahoma town where it slams into the lives of four people who have already set up appointments with death in some form that day. One of them is a death row inmate called Princess who has looked into Pastor Mac Mcintosh’s life through the eyes of another person, and who speaks truth into the minister’s heart from an unexplainable goodness in hers. She knows the “Big Ugly” is coming to eat up the world and she tells Mac to run! But it’s too late.
These four books explore the supernatural in everyday life, probe how ordinary people react when they’re confronted with something they flat out can’t explain. Award-winning journalist and best selling author Ninie Hammon creates characters as real as your own family…so when the unexplainable happens to them, you might begin to wonder if it could happen to you, too. And that will keep you turning pages far into the night.
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First published August 2, 2014
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About the author
Ninie Hammon
48 books241 followersI was born in Socorro, New Mexico, sometime shortly after the earth cooled off. It’s clear that from the outset my parents never intended for me to amount to anything. How could I? With a name like “Ninie?” Please.
Fame and fortune do not come to people named Ninie Bovell (My maiden name.) Gabriella Bovary? You could work with that. Even something as pedestrian as Madeline Bovell or Rebecca Bovell or (though you’d lose points here for lack of originality) Elizabeth Bovell. But Ninie? I never had a chance.
If I sound a mite hostile, bear in mind that in one decisive stroke my parents sentenced their precious newborn daughter to a lifetime of explanations that began my first day at Muleshoe Elementary School. (Yeah, Muleshoe. The hits just keep on coming.) After a painful week, I had a rap down that I still use today:
“No, it’s not Ninnie like skinny and penny. It’s Ninie—rhymes with tiny and shiny. 9e…get it? And no, it doesn’t mean anything, it isn’t short for anything, long for anything, or a substitute for anything. It just is. (Pause here for the inevitable ‘Why?’) You got me, pal, I couldn’t tell you.”
I grew up in Texas, got a BA in English and theatre from Texas Tech University and snagged a job as a newspaper reporter. Didn't know a thing about journalism, but my editor said if I could write he could teach me the rest of it and if I couldn't write the rest of it didn't matter. I hung in there for a 25-year career as a journalist. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, but as soon as I figured out that making up the facts was a whole lot more fun than reporting them, I never looked back.
Now, I write suspense--every flavor except pistachio: psychological suspense, inspirational suspense, suspense thrillers, paranormal suspense, suspense mysteries.
In every book I write I try to keep this promise to Loyal Reader: I will tell you a story in a distinctive voice you'll always recognize, about people as ordinary as you are--people who have been slammed by something they didn’t sign on for, and now they must fight for their lives. Then smack in the middle of their everyday worlds, those people encounter the unexplainable--and it's always the game-changer."
Fame and fortune do not come to people named Ninie Bovell (My maiden name.) Gabriella Bovary? You could work with that. Even something as pedestrian as Madeline Bovell or Rebecca Bovell or (though you’d lose points here for lack of originality) Elizabeth Bovell. But Ninie? I never had a chance.
If I sound a mite hostile, bear in mind that in one decisive stroke my parents sentenced their precious newborn daughter to a lifetime of explanations that began my first day at Muleshoe Elementary School. (Yeah, Muleshoe. The hits just keep on coming.) After a painful week, I had a rap down that I still use today:
“No, it’s not Ninnie like skinny and penny. It’s Ninie—rhymes with tiny and shiny. 9e…get it? And no, it doesn’t mean anything, it isn’t short for anything, long for anything, or a substitute for anything. It just is. (Pause here for the inevitable ‘Why?’) You got me, pal, I couldn’t tell you.”
I grew up in Texas, got a BA in English and theatre from Texas Tech University and snagged a job as a newspaper reporter. Didn't know a thing about journalism, but my editor said if I could write he could teach me the rest of it and if I couldn't write the rest of it didn't matter. I hung in there for a 25-year career as a journalist. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, but as soon as I figured out that making up the facts was a whole lot more fun than reporting them, I never looked back.
Now, I write suspense--every flavor except pistachio: psychological suspense, inspirational suspense, suspense thrillers, paranormal suspense, suspense mysteries.
In every book I write I try to keep this promise to Loyal Reader: I will tell you a story in a distinctive voice you'll always recognize, about people as ordinary as you are--people who have been slammed by something they didn’t sign on for, and now they must fight for their lives. Then smack in the middle of their everyday worlds, those people encounter the unexplainable--and it's always the game-changer."
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May 6, 2019
Loved every page!
Each book in this collection was an excellent and entertaining read. Nothing slow or even remotely boring about this authors style or the characters she created. Will absolutely search for all of her books!
Each book in this collection was an excellent and entertaining read. Nothing slow or even remotely boring about this authors style or the characters she created. Will absolutely search for all of her books!
March 17, 2016
I have read all four books in The Unexplainable Collection each being a stand alone book. Ninie Hammon is a very creative writer, all her books have great characters and excellent storylines. Each book in this collection is packed with plenty of action and suspense.
Ninie Hammon is one of my favorite writers and when she put together the collection, I jumped at the chance to buy it. Ninie Hammon never disappoints us readers for she is a fantastic writer who writes with so much passion. And she writes such terrific plots that you never want to put the book down.
Ninie Hammon is one of my favorite writers and when she put together the collection, I jumped at the chance to buy it. Ninie Hammon never disappoints us readers for she is a fantastic writer who writes with so much passion. And she writes such terrific plots that you never want to put the book down.
March 16, 2016
What a great idea, feels a little like Christmas over here. Ninie Hammon is an incredible story teller, this collection is a set of four stand alone novels that are each excellent in their own way. If you haven't read her work before you are truly missing out. I strongly recommend her to everyone I know and she never disappoints.
March 16, 2016
Five days in May excellent
Started this collection with this book and it will not disappoint! Well written easy to read. Story is unique and very realistic. Every free moment I had, I was reading this book until I finished it. Can't wait to read the next one.
Started this collection with this book and it will not disappoint! Well written easy to read. Story is unique and very realistic. Every free moment I had, I was reading this book until I finished it. Can't wait to read the next one.
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