A mysterious man has come to Spirit Falls. Does he have something to do with the new diner, or maybe the disappearance of the town's mayor? Sheriff John Darkman needs to find out the answers to both questions. Noah Graham is also curious about the mystery man and the new diner. Then he meets the man, Arik Dalca, who offers him a job as a waiter there. When the mayor reappears and begins to sicken, John and Noah discover the real reason Arik has come to town. Shocked and horrified, they are drawn into what is happening in their town. In the process of trying to stop the horror, Noah begins to fall for Ewan, one of Arik's team members, and John is drawn to Arik himself. Can the four men -- and the town -- survive what is to come?

The Diner

“I think the Spirit’s a river,” Robin quipped, earning him a raised middle finger from Rusty before they got back to work.


Arik decided the best way to approach dealing with the life-sucker at the mayor’s house, if it was there, was to have John pay the mayor a visit. “Tell him you need to discuss…I don’t know. Something to do with…whatever,” Arik told him.


John nodded, barely smiling. “I never did tell him what I found out about you.”


“That should work then. Noah, you take the left side of the house, I’ll cover the right and the back. If I’m correct about the life-sucker, and I’m sure I am, it will sense that John’s a Seeker and will leave before he can see it.”


“And float right into our waiting arms,” Noah said, sounding uncertain if he liked that idea or not.


“If you see it, try herding it in my direction,” Arik told him. “Whatever you do, do not lose track of it.”


“This all sounds pretty iffy,” John commented.


Chapter 31