Elijah has been hunting supernatural creatures his whole life often alongside his father Joshua, who trained him from birth. When Elijah was a young teen, he and his father met Jayden, a young werewolf whose family had been slaughtered. They took him in, and he has worked with them ever since.<br><br>When a case requires Elijah to work not only with his father and the werewolf he is secretly in love with but with his part-time lover Chogan, Elijah knows things are likely to get complicated, but he has no idea what is to come.<br><br>The town is under attack from a brutal killer, and Elijah is finding it harder than ever to hide his true feelings. Is he the only one?

Pale Light

“Drew a map. Showed the police. They wouldn’t go. They said I was a liar. I don’t lie. I saw it, saw him. He’s tied to a tree. He’s lonely. I visit him sometimes.” Eddy pulls a crumpled piece of paper out of his pocket and shoves it into Joshua’s hand. It’s dirty, but it’s clearly a quite well-drawn map of the local forest.


Chogan wonders what’s wrong with Eddy, what has him acting like this, if he had a life before his mind ran away from him. He’s a skilled artist, but that’s going to waste.


“Thank you, Eddy. We’ll go visit him and tell the police you didn’t lie,” Joshua promises.


“I didn’t hurt him. I don’t hurt people. They tell me to sometimes, but I don’t.” Eddy shakes his head.


“We believe you,” Jayden says softly.


“I have to…it’s my bus.” Eddy wonders off, even though no bus has pulled up. He just walks about ten steps away and sits on the ground.


“Well, this could be a good lead, or it could all be in his head,” Joshua says.


Chapter 33