Kiss of Darkness
Chapter OneTRAPPED BETWEEN the spirit realm and the mortal world the black wolf cried out, howling into the twilight. His haunting plea for help, for freedom, echoed throughout the misty barrier that separated mortal from immortal, but he could not be heard. Not among his brethren. Not among the humans he could see so clearly. Only the lost souls on Spirit Wind Mountain heard him, spirits as imprisoned as he. He was a warrior bound by invisible chains, unable to answer the sworn call of his Blood Hunter's soul to protect Logos's Elan and the struggling mortals, unable to fight the great darkness unleashing itself upon the mortal ground.
Present Day
Twilight, Tennessee
"I have to go to town, Em. I'm sheriff. Twilight's my responsibility." Sam Sheridan clenched his teeth, fists, stomach, and anything else he could clamp down on, wondering just how sharp an edge a man could walk before he split apart. It was worse than ironic that after everything he'd been through -- the military, imprisonment, torture, and years of personal hell -- that a pint- size bit of mystical fluff was going to do him in. Make ... read full excerpt from: Kiss of Darkness ebook