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

When I pulled my hand from the wall and turned it over, I could tell by his sudden intake of breath that I wasn’t the only one who could see his daughter’s name etched into the tender flesh of my palm.


I got off the bed and moved past him. I stumbled on the bedclothes that our sex had scattered to the floor. I could hear him following me, reaching out to grab me but I lurched forward avoiding his touch. The screen door that led to his tiny balcony stuck in its old tracks so that I practically had to yank it open.


“Anson!” Barrett called out my name and when he tried to follow me out onto the patio, I held a hand up for him to stop. I could hear his breathing, could feel the fear coming off him.


“It’s dark,” I said as I looked up at the sky. I was searching for something I knew wasn’t there.


“Moon dark,” I said slowly as if I could taste the words. I couldn’t look at him, even though I wanted to pull him close, I couldn’t do it.


Chapter 18