Welcome to Climate of Monsters

Friulian Son is the first in a series of books about two extraordinary heroes whose lives intertwine to fight monsters in plain sight. The book is chock-full of history, horror, humor, hanky-panky, hypotheses, and high stakes. The first unlikely hero is George Fiori, a Friulian-born, young man whose forefather was a master swordsman. George is not only a martial arts expert but is clairvoyant and has the ability to see the good and evil in each one of us. The other lead character is Saga Gunderson, who is a force to be reckoned with. She is a Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) master in explosives and weaponry. Pretty much anything is a weapon to Saga, including harmless everyday objects such as a spoon, a flower, dental floss, a saltshaker, or even a vacuum cleaner (dammsugaren). The monsters include some familiar creatures of lore, and new creatures that will keep you on the edge of each page. The monsters featured in the first book include a pack of biker werewolves from Vermont, the Nahant sea monster, and a human/cuttlefish hybrid creature that lurks in the subway, paralyzes its victims with blue venom, and feasts on their brains for sustenance. Each new book in the series will feature two to four new creatures to chill readers to the bone and make you question what is real and what is fiction.

Saga and George against all odds must embattle the mistress of disease, Pesta, a creature of bone-chilling nightmares that resurfaces from black waters of Merrimack to the Charles River to bring plague and pestilence upon the world. 

Saga Gunderson is a medical doctor that was trained in Sweden Special forces to combat terrorist groups around the world. She currently is a senior officer in Special Joint Operations Consortium (SJOC) Task Force in Sweden and Italy to track down and protect civilians from supernatural encounters. She was also tasked with protecting and serving George Fiori, the world’s last master swordsman to fight these monsters that seem to popup out of nowhere as climate change spirals out of control and the evolution and aggression of these monsters is untenable. George is a complex anti-hero who uses his deadly weaponry (armi mortali) training and neurodivergent gifts of clairvoyance and autism to unravel the mysteries and source of these supernatural encounters to prevent evil from resurfacing and killing innocent victims. 

Mitchell Sanders is just another ordinary individual. As a scientist and serial entrepreneur, in his spare time he enjoys reading and writing horror books. His inspirations come from his lovely wife and best friend, Elisabeth, and three children and three grandchildren, who encouraged him to write and finish his first book. Mitch spent a good portion of his life studying biomedical sciences and advanced wound care. He has a BA in biology from Boston University with a minor in Latin language and literature, and an MS in molecular biology and a PhD in biomedical sciences, both from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Mitch did two postdocs at the Whitehead Institute / MIT, a world-renowned nonprofit research institution dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research. Mitch is a worldwide expert in wound repair and regeneration. Mitch was formerly founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of a diagnostic company for sixteen years and is currently the chief scientific officer (CSO) of an international health-care tech enabled services firm. His biggest achievement is having three amazing kids (Jake, Mia, and Ben), three exceptional grandchildren (Emma, Corey, and Geo), and a wife, Elisabeth, who who somehow still loves him.