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 turned his head as much as he could into the pillow, squeezing his eyes shut tight. Gone was any pretense that he could stand up to this thing and show it he was fearless. He now simply hoped the end would come as quickly as possible and that it wouldn’t hurt too much.


He tried, somewhere in the recesses of his mind where there still remained a smidgen of rational thought, to tell himself this was a nightmare, a figment of his imagination, a manifestation of his insanity, but he couldn’t convince himself. Weird as it was, this experience had all the undeniable earmarks of reality.


At last he simply let his mind stop to wind down into numbness, a blank void.


“Hunter. You have no will. No will. Tonight, I will fuck. I will kill. And we, my sweet, will be together forever. You are the one for whom I have waited—the last one.”


Chapter 90