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

Now Ian felt inspired to dig deeper by Hunter’s declaration that he was going to live in Beaumont House. The house had always had a somewhat unsavory reputation, a history of suicides and unexplained death. Perhaps, Ian thought, the key to changing Hunter’s mind was in this box.


He dug through it, at the very bottom, were a couple of black-leather-covered books. He snatched the first one out and opened it. He discovered it was the diary of Hunter’s great-grandfather, Anton Beaumont III. Ian stared down at the scrawled and yellowing pages.


At first he was disappointed. The diary, at least on its first page, promised to be as lacking in excitement as the other documents in the box.


Chapter 36