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Dead Ships
A new stand alone novel from the premiere author of Lake Superior horror and the award winning Lake Superior Trilogy.
Lydia Aguilar, a grieving mother, joins her brother, son, and niece on a kayaking expedition along the wild shores of Lake Superior, hoping distance might ease old wounds.
Instead, a violent storm drives them into the path of the Dead Ships—ghostly vessels that sail the frigid waters.
Lost between worlds and pursued by the nightmare CrooMan, the family must confront the regrets they have carried for years. Because the Dead Ships ferry more than souls.
They ferry guilt, grief, and every unfinished thing we leave behind.
Dead Ships: Eternity Is a Frozen Sea is a haunting supernatural horror novel where survival may depend on finding forgiveness before the crossing begins.
U.P. Notable Book Award Winner
DEAD OF NOVEMBER
A Novel of Lake Superior
"In Dead of November, readers will find themselves embroiled in a suspenseful tale of a power-hungry medicine man, ancient Native legends, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. Brockman has a sure hit on his hands with this spellbinding yarn."
Tyler Tichelaar
Award-Winning Author of Haunted Marquette
Two boys lost beyond time and mortality trapped in an underworld delirium. Book two in the Lake Superior Trilogy, imagined as a prequel to the award-winning Dead of November, but brilliant as a stand-alone.
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ABOUT ME
Writing has always been important to me, both in my career and for pleasure. In my early years as a singer/songwriter I learned to set a scene and describe emotion in short verse.
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I’ve lived near the Great Lakes all my life, and much of it was spent near the shores of Lake Superior. Employed by The Indian Health Service, Lake Superior State University, and private clinics I came to know the rich fabric of the Upper Peninsula. Over many years I have had the opportunity to sit in exam rooms and listen to the joys, pains and intimate struggles of fifteen to twenty thousand souls. This precious insight influences my writing. Not to mention how writing millions of words of medical notes teaches one to be concise and descriptive.
The Upper Peninsula’s lakes, forests, and mountains will always be a frequent destination for us.
In 2017, an article in the Ontonagon Herald chronicled the final 140-mile leg of my meandering 450-mile hike across the entire U.P. from the Drummond Island Ferry Dock in DeTour Village to a sandbar at the mouth of the Montreal River on the Wisconsin border.
"Curve of the Earth: A Novel of Lazarus" released 2022. “Dead of November: A Novel of Lake Superior” released in March 2020. A middle-grade novel “Marty and the Far Woodchuck” was published in 2007. Among other things, I have contributed to the anthologies “U.P. Reader Vol. 4” in 2020 and "U.P. Reader Vol. 5" in 2021.
Sally and I love our life in Tecumseh, Michigan.