The Knowing Box Set EXTENDED EDITION

by Ninie Hammon

2 books PLUS 20,000 words of exclusive NEW content in 3 never-before-published scenes

THE KNOWING: Book One
It starts with a school shooting. It ends with the return of an evil as ancient as the skeleton of the universe.
In the middle, normal garden-variety people must figure out how to live their everyday lives—how to survive!—after they discover that all those childhood horror stories … well, most of them are true.
When the hot call comes over the radio: “Code Red! Active shooter at Carlisle Elementary School,” Police Sergeant Jack Carpenter has only one job. Find the gunman; take him out. He rushes into the school, fully armed and focused on cold, hard reality. But what happens to him in the next few hours shatters the world as he has always known it. And in the next three days, everything Jack Carpenter believes about himself, about life and reality, about good and evil and the whole nature of the universe will be challenged.
Can it possibly be true—seriously?—that invisible monsters prowl among us every day?
That there exists in the real world a winged creature more horrifying than any Hollywood-animated, computer-generated, mechanical unreality?
And that the single-minded mission of that beast—a creation of absolute, soul-less evil—is to kill Jack Carpenter?
That’s crazy! Fairy-tale-science-fiction-horror-movie-bogeyman crap!
Bottom line: it flat-out cannot possibly be true.
But it is.


THE DECEIVING: Book Two in The Knowing Trilogy The monster demon is BACK!
...and he’s had twenty-six years to plot his revenge.
Defeated in 1985 by three twelve-year-olds, the monster called an efreet returns determined to kill them. In The Knowing, the efreet sends five demon-possessed men to murder Jack Carpenter, Becca Hawkins and Daniel Burke—the now-adult twelve-year olds whose memories of that childhood summer when they battled a monster have been erased.
In The Deceiving, the efreet has changed his tactics. He’s not trying to kill the three who defeated him anymore. In “less time than it takes to cook a pot roast” he totally devastates their lives instead—as payback, and to keep them too busy to oppose his ugly, devious scheme.
In parallel storylines, the three twelve-year-olds battle the efreet during the summer of 1985 and their adult counterparts fight the man possessed by the efreet in 2011.

Books One and Two in The Knowing Trilogy are heart-racing, page-turning paranormal suspense novels about ordinary people who don’t want to believe that angels and demons, monsters from hell, walk the earth among us every day. But they have no choice--because it’s true. If you enjoy a hard-hitting story with themes that will challenge what you believe about yourself, about life and reality, about good and evil and the whole nature of the universe, these books are for you.


EXTENDED MATERIAL: 20,000 words of unpublished scenes
These three scenes were cut from the manuscripts of the first two books before the books were published. (Here's why the scenes were cut: http://bit.ly/9eTKExtended.

1170 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 11, 2016

About the author

I 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."

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could have been better

I was really excited about a super natural Christian book. It was an awesome storyline and I loved the characters. But the reason I gave this 3 stars instead of 5, was because there was no mention of Jesus except for one little blurb. I mean, you give all this power to demons and don’t ever recognize the fact as Christians we have the power of Christ in us!! The Holy Spirit! The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in us. The power is not us no but Jesus! At the name of Jesus those things has to flee!! I was really disappointed.

[Barbara Bonner-wells · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

Great job of covering lots of angles and keeping the story line flowing. One note though a made would still notice someone leaving 15 minutes before checkout time. Any checkouts after 9 will be noticed as they have hit the floor then.

[Red · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book...with some extras

[David Sain]

Superb!

Gripping novel on the fight between good and evil which goes on daily all around us. Makes me wonder what unseen forces are behind what we are shown in the news.