EKHO

Ten-year-old Elvis Jones is tired of being picked on, taunted, and teased by the bullies at his elementary school, so he does what any smart, technologically brilliant kid his age would do: he creates EKHO, the Evil Kid Hunting Organization, a sophisticated network of kid spies and secret agents that utilize a variety of cool gadgets to stay one step ahead of the enemy – the bullies. They hire kids, make them swear allegiance to the organization, and train them as Commandos, Privates, and Elite Spies. As kids rise through the ranks, the missions, posted on an encrypted EKHO website, require more smarts and skill, especially when the bullies form their own counterspy group called DEKE (Destroy EKHO Kids Everywhere).

It’s all in good fun, until the kids of EKHO must put their pretend skills to use for far more serious, and dangerous, missions. As field agents come across evidence of more sinister forces, they now have to deal with the strange, weird, and the unknown as they look for the truth about the bizarre and creepy threats to their school, their families, and their own lives. They experience betrayal, intrigue, infiltration and counter-espionage as well as teachers and adults who act more mysterious with each passing day, which leaves Elvis and his EKHO team wondering: who can you trust when the person standing next to you might not be entirely human?

Marie D. Jones

Marie D. Jones is a best-selling author with an extensive background in unknown mysteries, metaphysics, science, and the paranormal. She has been featured multiple times on the History Channel in Ancient Aliens and Nostradamus Effect. Marie also served as a special UFO/abduction consultant for the 2009 Universal Pictures movie, The Fourth Kind. She is a staff writer for FATE Magazine and Intrepid Magazine and a regular contributor to Paranoia Magazine and New Dawn Magazine. Marie has been interviewed on hundreds of radio talk shows all over the world, including Coast to Coast AM, and has been featured in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and online publications, internationally. She has lectured widely at major paranormal, new science, and self-empowerment events, and is the screenwriter and co-producer of 19 Hz, a paranormal thriller in development with Bruce Lucas Films. www.mariedjones.com

Max Jones

Max Jones is a not-so-typical tween boy who created EKHO when he and his friends were being bullied in elementary school. He is a techno-geek who spends a lot of time on the computer, plays Minecraft, Halo and other video games, loves Nerf and Airsoft guns, zombie and alien movies, his cat Lucy, his dog Chowder, and hanging out with his family and friends.

EKHO by best-selling author Marie D. Jones with son Max Jones, is a middle grade trilogy
about the very topical issue of bullying in school. The EKHO trilogy is a cross between the
hugely successful "Hardy Boys" series and the wildly popular "The X-Files" TV series.
Each book in the trilogy will deal with the everyday challenges of school and home life,
such as parental clashes, hostile teachers, broken hearts and the constant threat of being
bullied just for being different - with a paranormal storyline threaded throughout each
volume.