Bøger af Glenn Slade Clark Jr

Welcome to Nightfire... As a deceptively quiet night comes to a close, Janie Alberts, a woman who had lived a life filled with peace, never once making an enemy in all her eighty years, has been savagely murdered in her home, her throat torn apart as if by an animal. Under the dark, concealing cover of the very same night, two mysterious men have returned to town, each having spent years abroad after leaving under illicit circumstances, and both now trying to escape dangerous pasts that they dare not share with anyone. Stranger still, whoever has committed the murder now in question has purposely left clues to suggest the involvement of a vampire; a tactic that threatens to expose the darkest secret that the diminutive town of Nightfire, Texas has ever dared to keep.

In August of 1850, the fledgling town of Nightfire, Texas was plagued by a supernatural terror that all but destroyed it. The survivors, having found the key to keeping their town safe from the beasts in the future, rebuilt the town, using their clandestine knowledge to keep Nightfire safe from the monsters for all time. As the generations passed, the nightmarish story was lost to all but a few, each of whom felt confident that the vial of werewolf blood, secreted away in the basement of a small, unassuming Methodist church, would continue to keep the monsters at bay. Now, after 147 years of secrecy, the fragile artifact that has guarded against the horrors of the past has been destroyed, and the purest intentions of a teenage boy named Daniel has caused the long dead blood of the werewolf to quicken once again. Desperate for salvation, Daniel finds himself torn between his faith in both God and his friends and the unquenchable bloodlust of the monster gestating inside of him, as the two irreconcilable aspects of his spirit struggle for control of his mind and body. Confronted with the pain and loss that follow what has been done to him, and having seen more horror than he had ever imagined God could allow to exist in the universe, Daniel must risk the lives of his friends and loved ones to finally determine whether his faith will be enough to save them all and turn back the relentless hunger of the werewolf, or whether, as he fears at the core of his tortured spirit, there is in fact no saving any man, no matter how sinless and devout, from the cunning, murderous instincts of the savage beast within.

Eight months after the devastating series of killings dubbed "the Vampire murders," the vampire Valen Alexas has managed to settle back into his old manor in Nightfire, Texas, vigilant to keep his secret from the little town's mortal residents. But the unquiet dead have other ideas. Teeming with the spirits of Valen's past victims, the old Alexas Mansion has been roused by its recent renovation, and one spirit in particular will not rest until the monster who killed her brother is destroyed. Forced to face the painful secrets that drove him from Nightfire decades before, Valen must now accept the reality that he cannot fight this vengeful, and perhaps hopelessly insane, spirit on his own. Before he can ever hope to survive this spirit's wrath, Valen will find himself embracing lost loves, reaching out to unlikely friends, and ultimately facing the terrifying fact that the only way to end the haunting of Alexas Mansion might be to join the malevolent sprit forever...on the other side.