The house stood empty, dark and foreboding, but it was the answer to all of Erica Walsh's dreams--a place to raise her kids, a home of her own for the rest of her natural life. But if the house was empty, who was watching Erica with dead, vacant eyes...calling her name in the night with foul, fetid breath...caressing and arousing her with rough, probing hands?
A torrent of blood from the first incision obliterated the passages of the Bible, making them impossible to read. He tried separating the thin parchment pages of still another missal to read the Last Rites of the Church and faced an additional lesson in futility. A coagulation of dark crimson fluid—blood mixed with oxygen—held them fast.
He was doomed to die unblessed and without absolution; doomed to an eternity in Purgatory wandering amidst defilers of the flesh: rapists, murderers, war mongers. However, he’d committed a cardinal sin, therefore the sentence was fitting. He’d rendered his flesh as one renders the flesh of a beast—an abominable contradiction to the laws of the church where the celebration of life took precedence, where the body was held as a temple constructed in honor of God. Therefore, his actions warranted the severest of punishment because the temple was not his to abuse. It belonged to God. He belonged to God.
Book Two of the Bobby Beckett-August Summers Series. What looks like suicide is really murder -- murder of a mysterious young woman, who was kidnapped and has been missing since the age of three. With the help of reporter August Summers, Detective Bobby Beckett's searches unravel the tangled web of treachery and deceit and more and more bodies are found. A thrill a minute page turner!
Be careful what you wish for...
Although she has three younger brothers, 15 year old Lauren Anderson is a lonely teenager who’s spent most of her time yearning for a sister, a companion. But, as the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for. One moonlit night, using ancient knowledge of the supernatural taught by her grandfather Ute Werner, she decides to conjure up a sister on her own. However, something goes horribly wrong and what she conjures is Rachel, an exact duplicate—a Doppelganger—from the bowels of hell who is the exact opposite of Lauren in nature, bent on wrath and destruction. As the evil twin with ungodly powers, Rachel lives for the kill and frequently scans Lauren’s mind in a quest for revenge, brutally slaughtering those who have offended Lauren. When Lauren discovers the truth, she tries to keep her thoughts neutral, but how does a teenager whose hormones are raging quell her childish anger against those she comes across on a daily basis?
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