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

“Anyway, the families living on what’s now your property slowly died off themselves. By the late 1800s only one woman was left—her name was Miranda. I’ve found some descriptions of her. She was wild, a real strange character. Long tangled hair, always dressed in black. But I understand she had a kind of wild, untamed beauty that attracted a lot of men. She slept with a lot of them.”


“It seems people were most afraid of her. See, she had this kid…a baby boy. Like, two years old. And everyone in Stoketon at that time believed the kid was not somebody’s husband’s mistake but the spawn of the devil. And from what I can gather, this belief extended to even the most reasonable people in town.”


Chapter 71