It was a peaceful night when Barrett and his daughter were driving home ... then something happened. Something sinister. Something took Barrett’s daughter from him. Now the only person Barrett can turn to for help is Anson, a man gifted with psychic abilities beyond reason. But Anson is also his ex-boyfriend, a man whose heart he’d already broken. As Anson delves deeper into the circumstances surrounding Barrett’s accident, he begins to realize he’s in a race against time. Whatever has taken Barrett’s daughter is a force of evil beyond anything either man has ever encountered. Can both men put aside their heartaches and past to save Barrett’s daughter from an entity that has the power to destroy them all?

Earthly Concerns

“She was sitting just behind me,” Barrett said and opened the back door.


A sickening smell; animal-like and fetid poured from the opening. We both fell away from the car as if we had been hit.


“Jesus fucking Christ!” Barrett yelled and then started coughing.


My eyes began to burn and I could not only smell the horrid stench but I could also taste it and what I tasted wasn’t just rank, it was evil. I shook my head violently, forced a bicep across my mouth, and edged closer. I could still hear Barrett gasping and coughing behind me when I looked into the back seat and saw the place where Hilary had been sitting now empty, blackened as if something had reached from hell itself and burned it with a demonic blaze.


I reached forward, fingers twitching, I had to touch it. Sounds began to screech across my mind; the shrieking brakes, glass shattering and behind each sound the wail of a little girl.


Chapter 10