Karen McCullough – författare

Librarian Jess O'Rourke already has her hands full with her father's declining health and the under-staffed, under-funded library she runs. A new preacher in town waging war on her books is just an annoyance at first, but an attractive mysterious stranger warns her that there's more behind the reverend's campaign than she can guess. The new preacher is a human possessed by a demon and he's searching for an old grimoire that's part of an uncatalogued collection of books stored in the library's basement.Gabriel Sutton has been the guardian of the book for a long time, a very long time, he claims, since that has been his penance for crimes he committed as a soldier during the Civil War. He convinces Jess that she needs to find the grimoire and use it to return the demon to where he belongs.Their time gets short when the reverend realizes she's searching for the book and resorts to desperate measures to either retrieve or destroy it.

Her fingerprints are on the gun, but Sarah swears she''s innocent. Although Sarah Anne Martin admits to pulling the trigger, she swears someone forced her to kill her lover. Homicide detective Jay Christianso is skeptical, but enough ambiguous evidence exists to make her story plausible. If he gives her enough freedom, she''ll either incriminate herself or draw out the real killers. But, having been burned before, Jay doesn''t trust his own protective instincts. . .and his growing attraction to Sarah only complicates matters. With desire burning between them, their relationship could ultimately be doomed since Sarah will be arrested for murder if Jay can''t find the real killer.65,517 Words