How do you know if you’re one of the damned? As a child, Don wanted to become a priest. Now a grown man mostly at ease with being gay, he’s left the Catholic Church and has chosen instead to help people through his work as a parole officer. His strong faith is shaken when his latest assignment turns out to be Michael, a young man Don hasn’t seen since he took Michael to church as a child -- and saw his parish priest cast Michael out of the church as a demon. Meeting him as an adult re-ignites the obsession Don had with the boy he couldn’t save. But can Michael be saved at all? Or is the strangely compelling demon with a taste for risky sex as damned as he believes himself to be?

Angel

“Holy Mary, Mother of God…” Father Thomas gasped. His face changed, twisted. Donnie backed away in unconscious fear as the priest carried on in a terrible voice. “I adjure thee, thou most foul spirit, every appearance, every inroad of Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth…”


A strange, inhuman cry came out of Michael’s throat. His reddened gaze fixed on Father Thomas, he began to back away towards the door.


“Go out, thou seducer, full of deceit and wile, thou enemy of virtue! I adjure thee, that thou depart from the House of God!”


A great wind seemed to sweep through the church, and Donnie watched in horror as the doors to the street opened of their own accord and Michael, his blistered, bloody face distorted by terror, was hurled outside, the doors slamming shut behind him.


Chapter 2