“It had no flesh, bone, or conscience. It would kill to eat what it needed. And there was no way to stop it.”

There was only a way to send it back to the Dark Place it had escaped from. It was a place that tortures souls for all eternity. And it would consume the souls of its unsuspecting victims until it found the one it hungered for. The soul that would give it power to take form.
But sending it back would mean facing the fear, once again, of losing my soul to a place like hell, but worse. And it would soon be a battle between the demon--a dark god-and myself….

“I never believed in vampires. But here I stood--talking to one.”

And what Dante came to offer me was what kept me in the room. It was also what kept me from calling out to Kyle. It was a chance for me to have a life without being hunted down by the two men who treated me as though I was a freak--a circus sideshow--and a monster.
Dante was the one who had haunted my most recent visions. I had been in his mind as he murdered so viciously and had felt his immense pleasure in the process. He was just another monster. And it was the one thing I had feared the most of becoming. But I had also hungered for his victims--had savored the taste of blood on my tongue--and I had to face the fact we really weren't so different after all….

“I wasn't in town more than a couple of hours and I was already being haunted by something that was not of this world.”

I was beginning to think I was the lost and found department for every supernatural plasmic slimeball that made its way into the area. For the creature from The Corridor had come to enlist my aid in finding something he let slip through his fingers. A soul that was damned to his world and placed in his care. A soul that had come back to seek its revenge, so it would be released from an eternity of torture.
Finding the soul wouldn't be easy. Sending it back would be even harder. For I had faced the fear of giving my soul to a place like hell twice before. And had released souls that had been doomed to that very fate. But the price I would pay would be high if I didn't….