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

“Does it look like he’s joking? But you know, this dimension isn’t exactly like ours. Maybe here you don’t have a pencil-dick.”


Henry reacted as he anticipated, his hands going to his fly. “You talk too much. On your knees, fucker, or I’ll snap your legs like twigs.”


He heard Emma’s sharp intake of breath, but as Jesse began to comply, his eyes never leaving Henry’s, the vampire holding Emma suddenly shouted in pain. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her hand tight on the vampire’s balls, knuckles white from how tightly she was squeezing. The vamp shoved her away to break the grip, but she twisted at the last minute, pulling a stake out of nowhere, and shoved it into her captor’s chest.


Chapter 87