Edwin Masters has spent his entire life lusting after one car -- a 1962 Alfa Romeo Spider 2600. When he finally buys one, it changes the entire shape and meaning of his world. The car comes with a guest, and the restless spirit is awakened by Edwin.<br><br>Cooper James, the young man who died behind the wheel forty-seven years earlier, haunts the Spider and he wants a life. He wants Edwin. So he reaches out, sucking Edwin into a deepening abyss by exploiting demons from a past Edwin can't break from.<br><br>Edwin resists, struggling against the phantom in favor of an attractive, exciting young man who wants to be with him, Carson Heston. Carson holds the key to Edwin's salvation, but every time he gets close, Cooper terrorizes him. Edwin knows he'll be lost forever if he submits to Cooper's dark promise of release and relief, but that might be the only way to save Carson's life.

On a Bruised Road

There had been a horrible moment of sharp pain radiating from his balls. Pain like Carson had never experienced before. It was hot and overpowering, flooding his lower stomach like lava. Carson had frozen, midthrust, his entire body going rigid. In the next second, he understood that there was a cat attached to his sac. Until the night with Edwin, that had been the most horrible, surprising, unbelievable thing that had ever happened to him while with another man.


Whatever he had felt in Edwin’s bedroom hadn’t been as painful as the cat incident. But there had been definite pressure on his balls, and the shape and weight of five distinct fingers. And that sensation had only increased, the delicate pressure increasing until Carson had wanted to wrench away. Of course, Edwin’s hands had been well accounted for. And there had been nobody else in the room.


Chapter 21