Springdale, Ohio is a middle-class town nestled in southwestern Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati.It's a quiet, sleepy town which has a secret.In the early 1920's a man named Michael Westerly moved into this old house on Deadman's Bluff, overlooking a graveyard, but there was a reason Mr. Westerly chose this spot. He was into voodoo and trying to make zombies out of the townsfolk, but when the townsfolk got wind of this, they tried to drive him out of town, and ultimately they lynched him, but Mr. Westerly got his revenge, and 100 years later, the town of Springdale, Ohio was the epicenter of a conspiracy that brought Mr. Westerly's threats to fruition. Now the townspeople, including the Smith family, who moved into town in the summer of 2025, to flee for their lives in the ensuing zombie apocalypse. Can the Smiths and the townspeople of Springdale survive the nightmare that they find themselves in, or be swallowed up by "The Curse of Deadman's Bluff"

Over the past five or six weeks, after the dead started coming out of the graves on Deadman's Bluff, the Smith family, who fled the initial onslaught of the undead in Springdale, Ohio, are still journeying the country-side, looking for any place that they could stay to hide from the hordes of undead who are now rampaging all across the country and the world.They find it in the farm of Edward and Claire Dowerton, who take them into their home and treat them like family, but the Smith family knows that even there, Ed and Claire's farm is only a temporary refuge and they eventually are forced to flee, once again, for their very lives to find another "safe haven", from the rampaging "Zombie Apocalypse".

The Smith family is in search of what they have been led to believe is a community that has been able to shield itself from the "Zombie Apocalypse", allowing its residents a chance to get back to a normal life and for a time, the Smiths feel that they discovered a place where they can begin their lives anew until the night of Halloween 2026;the one-year anniversary of the commencement of the "Zombie Apocalypse", when they discover this "safe zone", isn't all that it's cracked-up to be as the facade has been broken and they must, once again, flee for their very lives.

“In this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Bask in Swain’s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.” –The Washington Post Book World A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world’s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremes–even cold-blooded murder–to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big. While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarco’s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove there’s more to any game of chance than meets the eye. Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!

For the past couple of months, little Carol Anne Smith has been living with her adopted family; the Johnsons, since they fled the evil clutches of Doctor Benjamin Langdon. It isn't long, however, before Carol Anne becomes homesick and hatches a plan to steal one of Tom and Karen Johnson's golden seashell-necklaces that has the power to turn mermaids into humans, as well as the reverse as Carol Anne had the misfortune of finding out. At first, Carol Anne intends on the visit to be temporarily, but when Dr. Langdon finds out that she's back on dry-land and Karen and Tom find out Carol Anne's scheme to return to her "land-dweller" family, it's a race against time to keep Carol Anne out of Dr. Langdon's evil clutches once and for all.