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

After a while, he stood, dried his eyes, and took a deep breath. “Damn it,” he whispered, “I am not a prisoner here.” He went out to the foyer, where a gilt-edged mirror hung on one wall. He looked at himself and was pleased with what the mirror threw back. The garden and lawn work had made him trim, building and defining his muscles. The T-shirt clung alluringly to a muscled chest and went taut around his biceps. And damn if he didn’t fill out his jeans, faded at his bulging crotch, in a very provocative way.


“Why let all this go to waste?” he wondered, trying to smile.


He grabbed his car keys from the secretary desk by the front door. “It’s your loss, Michael.”


Chapter 82