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

Hunter lay down on the four-poster and pulled the quilt up over him. Sleep took him before he had even taken the time to undress.


Patty loves Jim. School sucks. Mr. Pletcher sucks donkey dicks.Hunter sat at the long, scarred table in the reference room of the library, tracing his fingers over the carvings in its surface. All around him was spread the history of one of the most influential families this small farming community had ever seen: his own. Copies of deeds, titles, various business transactions of the Beaumont Paper Mill, even birth and death certificates of relatives he had never known. The librarian, an older man with a shock of white hair, had explained that some of their collection duplicated what could be found in the village hall, but the library had wanted to be a central resource for those researching the Beaumont family history. Hunter read over a yellowing laminated newspaper clipping that described the building of Beaumont House.


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