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

Jay let out a sigh. “Good. I didn’t want to think my horniness had spoiled things.”


Hunter touched Jay’s face. “You could never spoil things.”


As he drove south on Lake Shore Drive, Jay Blackstock laughed, turned up the music, and signaled to get off at the Belmont exit. Over the pulsing Crystal Method CD blaring in his car, he shouted, “I need to get laid!”


He turned right on Halsted, heading toward Steamworks, which Jay thought of as Chicago’s finest bathhouse. 5


Chapter 15