Kirjahaku

A vicar haunted by visions of horrific murders... but solving them may put him right in the hands of an unimaginable evil.Divorcee Vicar Alex Jennings is making a fresh start in a new parish in the small quiet village of Trenton. He hopes his appointment will stifle those haunting visions of sacrifice and murder. Skeletons ripped from men and women...He soon realises that these visions drove him to this village, the city of which has now become the epicentre of a series of murders that are somehow linked to one that occurred over thirty years ago. His visions, torturing in their vagueness and teasing in their beckoning of answers, drives him to a bloodied corpse of a once-upon-a-time man. The more he tries to make sense of these visions and this gruesome discovery the more he becomes embroiled in a secret deadly pact and a police investigation that soon marks him as a principal suspect. There are blasphemous beasts beneath this human-driven society. Things born of suffering, giving rise to a mish-mash of forms that the human mind would not dare imagine.As he delves deeper into the cracks in the fa ade of this world, his faith becomes tested to its limits, his sanity pushed to breaking point. Can he solve an age-old murder and put a stop to the visions before they put him at the heart of an ancient evil that could destroy everything he knows.

Devlin found a new home, a new life, a new love... and a secret that could destroy it all.Devlin thought he had found the perfect flat. He could call it his own, a mark of independence from his overbearing mother and controlling father. It was the middle finger to his cheating girlfriend. Why would she leave without taking the thing that was most important to her?Exploring the flat, Devlin finds a journal belonging to the previous tenant --Gwendolyn. The pages reveal her visions: a world of which she has no understanding but to which she is intrinsically linked. Through her entries he finds himself drawn to her. He starts to question her disappearance, attracting the attention of others who will do anything to stop him learning the truth. In his search for answers he learns of a ravaged, hate-filled history belonging to a different world. He finds the strength to dig past the lies and deception, deeper into a magic beyond these walls."It is what it is." The man stepped to the wall again, and this time touched it, caressed it. "The essence of the chosen. It is the mirror in the magic box, the trapdoor on the grand stage of illusion. The blood of those..."Can he find her before he is stopped, before she falls beyond his reach forever? Can he find the answers that will lead to the core of what awaits: a new identity and a love shrouded in destiny, displaced recollection and malice?

Carl would do anything to protect his daughter. A beauty born of evil is about to put him to the test. Following the murder of his wife, Carl struggles for closure. With the police no closer to finding her killer, Carl knows that he needs to move on for the sake of his only daughter.Her approach was akin to the unwrapping of a gift, the contents of the darkness emerging to reveal more, to stir the imagination to a frenzy.But after finding a seemingly innocent-looking box at a car-boot sale, Carl soon finds himself faced with beautiful women who fight for his acceptance and love, their affections leading to a dangerous obsession that threatens his and his daughter's lives. As he learns more about them he realises that they are mere semblances of the female form, born of a supernatural power that is connected to him, his daughter and his past. Even though she was the cause of his panic and fear, and June's screams, her beauty even now managed to captivate him.Carl must find the architect of these forms to save himself, his daughter...and much more than he thought possible.

They can run from the law, walk away from their victims... but they cannot escape themselves. For Miles it was about money and power. For Will it was just to fit in. For Burney it was a struggle for independence. They all had their reasons for mugging and abusing the innocent. Will notices that he's being followed. Police? Have they finally found them, here to make them pay for what they've done? With the help of Burney and Miles they realise that they are being tracked and hunted by people from their past, seeking vengeance for an injustice. But as they delve deeper into their past to learn the identities of their pursuers, they soon realise that are not what they appear to be. These people, these things, know their every move, understand them better than they know themselves. The three of them are pitted against each other in a battle of mistrust and deception that escalates to violence and murder. The answer was staring at her. It was Will-deformed and twisted, but it was somehow him.If they are to find the source of their retribution, they must first survive each other.