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

I turned my face against the pillows and closed my eyes. I reached under the pillow and I was surprised when I felt the lump of quartz that usually rested on my windowsill. I sat up startled, the quartz clutched in my hands. When did I put it there? More importantly, why?


I heard the thump of something against the window at the foot of my bed, got up and peered slowly out into the blackness beyond my screen. I saw nothing.


A beetle hit the screen and made me jump. I watched transfixed as it flew away only to return and hit the screen again. The second time it clung to the screen and scuttled across it. Something, there had been something about the beetle. Nothing, there was nothing behind my eyes. I was beginning to feel like a bell jar had fallen over my life. Everything I needed to know was on the other side, held temptingly from my mind by a thin glass wall. If I were Alice, this would be when I would try to step through the looking glass.


Chapter 27