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

“Thanks. But I’ll feel better if you tell me the truth.”


Carson leaned back in his chair and folded his arms. “I’ve got time for complicated. I’m not going anywhere tonight.”


“Do the doctors want you to stay for observation?”


“Oh.” Edwin took a deep breath. “I don’t even know where to start. If I tell you…even if I told you a half-truth, you’d still have good reason to think I’m completely insane.”


“No, I know. This is really crazy. I’m not even sure I believe it…”


“Does it have something to do with Cooper?”


Hearing that name on Carson’s lips turned his blood to ice water. Sweat gathered at his temples and the back of his neck. “What do you know about him?”


“I know that he owned the Spider before you did. I know that he died when he was eighteen in a bad car accident.”


Chapter 57