The Dark Ones

My shadow has a life of its own. It crawls . . . it screams . . . it kills. It's been years since Rue Baker killed her little brother. Everyone believed it was an accident, but Rue knows the truth, even worse, she lives in fear of one truth, it would happen again.

In the rainy town of Serpent's Creek, a strange storm is brewing. For Rue Baker, it takes an accident that claims her brother's life to realize that the shadows she cast on walls are no ordinary extensions of herself, but ancient fiends bounded to her blood by those who had come before her. Chaos follows her like moth to light until she is drawn to a mysterious group of teenagers led by the charismatic Jack Blackwater. He has got it all- wealthy family, good looks, and even better, like her he possesses a strange affinity for influencing minds. But just as she makes a home amongst his dark and sinister group, trouble stirs in the form of an age-long blood feud.

St Dennis boasts some of the brightest minds in a minor seminary. But there has always been something strange about its young Priests in training, especially Lucien de Legrand. He hardly smiles, disappears when the sun goes down, utterly numb to physical and emotional pain, but his newfound friendship with Rue has been growing steadily, a strain to his coming oath of celibacy. There is something about this forbidden attraction that transcends blasphemy . . . it reeks of vengeance . . . it smells like death.