As an ex-special forces member, Robert learned the art of infiltration, interrogation, and combat. During his service, he was always eagerly awaiting his next assignment and when he wasn’t in the field, he was either polishing his sidearm or training. But his life changed in 1984 when he met his soon to be wife, Betty, and he quickly left the service, married her, and picked up a mop. From there, Robert focused his life on two things: loving his wife and making sure the floor shined. After 40 years of marriage, Betty passed away and Robert’s life changed once again. These days, he mostly keeps to himself. The only thing keeping him in good spirits are the residents of River Bluff. That and his mean banana bread.

Life was never easy for Sutton. And while her twin brother escaped their broken home to find freedom in faith, she just escaped. Into partying and addiction. It’s a story you’ve heard before, and Sutton’s nearly ended the way you might expect, until a fateful encounter with a vampire kept death at bay and took her life in a whole new direction. These days? She’s doing the same as you: Just trying to survive. Only she’s a little better at it than she used to be.

Once a notorious thief for hire, Jack Harrow spent years running jobs for people with deep pockets and dirty hands. That was until the heist that went south, where she was left with nothing but a bullet wound, a dead fiancé, and a cursed grimoire she can’t get rid of. Now, Jack wants nothing more than to leave her life of crime behind. But fate, or perhaps that grimoire she stole, has other plans. Cunning, ruthless, and fiercely loyal, she’s determined to put the pieces of her shattered life back together—if the past doesn’t catch her first.