Hardcover, USA First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to title page

 The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surface in Lake Glimmer glass "So begins The Monsters of Templeton, A novel spanning two centuries - part`s contemporary story of a girl`s search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at it core a tale of how one town holds the secrets of a family in the wake of a wildly disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor. Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie turned born again Baptist Mon. Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generation. Willie learns that the story her mother had always told her about her father has all been a lie he wasn`t the random man from a free love commune that Vi had led her to imagine, but someone else entirely someone from his very town. As Willie puts her archaeological skills to work digging for the truth about her lineage, she discovers that the secrets of her family run deep. through letters editorials and journal entries, the dead rise up to tell their sides of the story, as dark, mysteries come to light, past and present blur old stories are finally put to rest, and the shocking truth about more than one monster is revealed...

Hardcover, USA. First Edition, First Printing, Signed and Dated (March 21 2009) by author to title page.

Troubled journalist, Michael Wilde takes on a commission to write a feature about a remote research station deep in the frozen beauty of Antarctica. On a diving expedition in the polar sea he discovers two bodies encased in ice. The pair a man and a woman chained together, their dress from the nineteenth-century are brought to the surface-along with a trunk containing a strange, but sinister cargo. As the ice around them begins to thaw, the mystery of these time-bound lovers begins to unravel. Michael is gradually drawn into a horrific story that starts in the London barracks in the 1850s and leads to the bloody battlefield of the Crimea and the tragic Charge of the Light Brigade. Now in the Antarctic wastes. the Cavalry officer and his lover are reawakened into a world where the midnight sun lasts for months, where there"s nowhere to hide and no place left for the living to run.. In this chilling supernatural thriller, spanning five continents, and several centuries, Robert Masello, weaves together an extraordinary tale of eternal life and undying love, Gripping and intensely moving. "Blood and ice" will take its readers on an enthralling, and unforgettable journey...