The Stepping Stone Cycle: Episodes 4-6

The Stepping Stone #4-6

by Gary Ballard

Forensic psychologist Dr. Jack Carter lost a year of memory and with it, his wife Sarah. Though suspected of being behind her disappearance and possible murder, Jack maintains his innocence, vowing to find his wife alive or track down her killer. With the help of his sometimes partner in the FBI, Agent Bill West, Jack investigates the deadly work of psychologically damaged killers, finding clues to his wife's disappearance in a series of weird killings with overtones of supernatural guidance. From a mysterious island off the coast of Virginia to New York City in the 1880's, Jack discovers a mystery spanning millennia with cosmic origins he cannot begin to comprehend. Will he finally answer the question "What happened to Sarah Carter" and can his fragile sanity survive the answer?

The Stepping Stone Cycle is a series of novellas by acclaimed self-published author Gary Ballard set in the Cthulhu Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft. Each novella is written as if it was an episode on a television series, and this compilation contains the complete text of the final three episodes of season 1: Memory Void, The Empty Reflection Beckons and Stepping Stone.

259 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 2019

About the author

I began writing things down at the age of eleven, and I haven't stopped since. I have written far too many things that have gone unpublished, from very terrible horror novels in my teens, to comics during my time at Belhaven College until finally settling on cyberpunk science fiction after graduation. I have released three novels in a cyberpunk series called The Bridge Chronicles. The Bridge Chronicles in turn is one slice of cohesive universe that began as a pen-and-paper roleplaying game.

I currently live with my beautiful wife and three very insane dogs in Mississippi, where I continue to write my novels.