So much screaming. When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his best friend, Tooth, he knows they're going to have a good time. A summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, and maybe even girls. So much pain. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures, two friends—So much blood. —suddenly thrust in the middle of a nightmare. Forced to fight for their life against a sadistic killer. A killer with an arsenal of razor sharp blades and a hungry dog by his side. So much death. If they are to survive, they must decide: are heroes born, or are they made? Or is something more powerful happening to them? And more importantly, how do you survive when all roads lead to death!

It's been ten years since Roger Huntington suffered through the bloody events in Skinny Man's basement. Ten years since the game of chance, the dismemberment, the torture, and the grisly deaths. Roger has moved to California where he now works as a painter and pines after his co-worker, Victoria. It's a seemingly bland life, which is how he likes it. But just as he can't forget his past, he is about to discover that his future may hold far more terrifying events than anything he could possibly imagine. About the Ryan C. Thomas is an award-winning journalist and editor living in San Diego, California. You can usually find him in the bars on the weekends playing with his band, The Buzzbombs. He is the author of many novels, some of which are The Summer I Died, The Undead World of Oz, and Ratings Game. When he is not writing or rocking out, he is at home with his cat, Elvis, watching really bad B-movies. Visit him online at

Roger Huntington has made his way to Berlin where he is on the hunt for a notorious serial killer who’s eluded capture for years. With the help of some new friends, and the element of surprise on his side (for once), Roger just might be able to save the day before anything goes wrong. But that wouldn’t be Roger’s life now, would it? Turns out his new friends might not be who they say they are, the killer may be onto him, and the benefactor who brought him to Berlin could be hiding deadly secrets that will get everybody killed . . . unless Roger can figure out what the hell’s going on before it’s too late. "Ryan C. Thomas is one of my new favorite writers!" - Brian Keene, author of Pressure "Once again, Ryan C. Thomas absolutely delivers! Scars of the Broken is an expertly-crafted mixture of suspense, gore, and humor!" - BMoviesandEbooks.com "If you want to freak yourself out on your next camping trip, you can't do any better than The Summer I Died!" - BloodyDisgusting.com "Huntington is a haunted man fighting to remain humane in Thomas' darkest tale yet. Scars of the Broken is a thrill a minute, with a fantastic—and deadly—suporting cast!" - Craig Saunders, author of Dead Boy ABOUT THE Ryan C. Thomas lives in San Diego with his wife and two dogs. He is the author of several novels including The Summer I Died, Born To Bleed (the sequel to The Summer I Died), Hissers, Hissers 2: Death March, Salticidae, The Undead World of Oz, Hobbomock, Ratings Game, Origin of Pain, as well as several novellas and short stories.