James M. Campbell Bücher

Two lovers imprisoned in adjoining cells for a crime they did not commit. Night after night, their hushed reassurances keep them warm. But now their whispers waver with uncertainty over rumors overheard in the still mist of darkness. Faced with the terrifying prospect of being separated forever, their hopes fade quickly. Desperate to protect his love from despair, the man distracts the woman with a story of Josh and Katie. Josh sealed his own fate when he left Katie to write for The New York Times. When he meets Natalie, a free spirit with a troubling secret, his refusal to see the truth threatens to snap Josh in two. What is the meaning of the disturbing contents of the red envelopes that keep landing on his desk? Who is Josh's stalker, known only as 'The Mysterious S?' Chance Fry, a washed-up FBI agent working on his last case, recognizes similarities to a mystery that has been evading him for years. As he investigates, he grows closer to the truth, but he realizes that this is no ordinary case and the evidence he uncovers may come too late. Then, like a lifeline thrown to a drowning man, Katie reaches out to Josh when he needs her the most. But every story comes to conclusion, and the imprisoned lovers are nearing the end of theirs. Even tender words, heated debates, and a tragic tale of love lost cannot distract the two from the inevitable as the lovers' jailers prepare to carry out their nefarious plan.

Malcolm shrugs it off when Jack reveals his latest acquisition. He's been possessed by darkness as long as Malcolm has known him. But Jack's enormous wealth, once a wellspring of bohemian revelry, is now a cause for concern. His unholy obsession with material things is a symptom of a growing madness and Malcolm cannot ignore it anymore. The drug abuse, troubling behavior, and violent encounters: all signs that Jack is no longer in control. Stone by clammy stone, the house in the wilderness claws toward heaven, but its long and winding roots are firmly planted in hell. Somehow connected to a centuries-old manuscript and a deal struck with a mistress of the black arts, it's a gargantuan mausoleum born in a mind gripped by wild and exotic desires. Malcolm's dismay becomes bone-chilling horror when the true intent of the house is revealed, and in the unsettling stillness of an autumn night the mammoth structure will unleash its horrifying secret as Malcolm wages a battle for his very soul.