Stopping a murder that happened forty years earlier may be the only way to heal a tortured mind ...<br><br>Six months after Jesse Madding is brutally tortured by Marcus Brooker, he is still experiencing flashbacks, panic attacks, and jumping at his own shadow. His lovers, Gideon Keel and Emma Coolidge, would do anything to help him, but Jesse refuses to be hospitalized for treatment, or even visit a therapist. Desperate for a change, Gideon and Emma suggest a radical solution.<br><br> Jesse wants to fix his life. More than anything, he wants to be normal again. He doesn't want to live in fear. He doesn't want to be ashamed of his scarred and mutilated body. He doesn't want to shy away from Gideon's touch. Certain that the holding pattern will kill him, he agrees to Gideon and Emma's proposed solution: travel to an alternative dimension and save Marcus Brooker from witnessing Mary's grisly murder ... in order to save Brooker's soul.

Chaos and Communion

His hand shot out and grasped Brooker’s throat, shoving him backward to pin him to the building. “He’s not well?” Gideon hissed. Leaning down, he met the man’s eyes, aware that his control was on a very tight rein at the moment. “You’re fucking right he’s not well. You want to know about the future? Which part do you want to hear about? The part where you strung him up from the ceiling and ran him through with every sharp object you could find? Or the part where you sold your soul and turned your back on everything Mary ever said or did? Don’t talk to me about how you’d do anything to reach her vision. I’ve been living with the ghosts of what you’ve done for the past six months.”


Chapter 53