Hunter Beaumont doesn't understand his grandmother's deathbed wish: "Destroy Beaumont House." He'd never even heard of the place. But after his grandmother passes and his first love betrays him, the family house in the Wisconsin woods looks like a tempting refuge. Going against his grandmother's wishes, Hunter flees to Beaumont House.<br><br>But will the house be the sanctuary he had hoped for? Soon after moving in, Hunter realizes he may not be alone. And who -- or what -- he shares the house may plunge him into a nightmare from which he may never escape.<br><br>Sparks fly when he meets his handsome neighbor, a caretaker for the estate next door, but is the man salvation...or is he the source of Hunter's terror?

A Demon Inside

But he had an appointment downtown on LaSalle Street in a little more than an hour and needed to get himself pulled together. He reluctantly threw off the covers and went to his window to gaze outside at the gray lake and the whitecapped waves as they hurled themselves against the beach and breakwater just south of their house.


My house. Well, we’ll see about that, won’t we?Nana had never discussed what she was leaving to him, but he assumed everything. Who else was there?


Hunter went online to check the Metra schedule and saw a train would be leaving from the Main Street station in Evanston in thirty-five minutes, enough time for a quick shower, some coffee, and the walk to the station.


Chapter 9