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

“One,” I said, sounding faraway even to my own ear. “And zero.”


The sand and the lull of the ocean fell away.


The temperature began to rise. Sweat began to run down my back, forcing gooseflesh to rise along my spine.


“Barrett!” I raised my voice. “Where are you?”


“In the dark,” he sounded confused. “I’m in the dark.”


“It’s alright, you’re safe. I need you to go back to the tree. Do you remember the tree from earlier today?”


“No!” he answered defiantly. “Not again.”


“You are safe,” I could see him in the dark; his body hunched like it bore a great weight. Even as he tried to refuse my suggestions, I could see the world returning around us. The tree loomed up like the memory of a shadow; split and black against the gray of the world we now moved in.


Chapter 25