Monday Morsel: Hellcat In the Dark - An Excerpt from 'Stalking the Demon'

Stalking the Demon has been coming back from beta readers and I'm working on incorporating their feedback - next step, off to the editor!

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The laboratory was dark when Alloran returned. With sunrise only an hour off, Ashraque had finally gone in search of her bed. She was dedicated, if nothing else. The same couldn’t be said for Dalvor though – had he even looked at the interdimensional problem?

He pushed the door shut until the latch clicked. The windowless room was blacker than graphite. Indigo sparks ignited on his fingers. But no… Light would wake him all the way up, and maybe a few more hours sleep was better. The magic died.

A hiss issued from the depths of the room, like steam escaping a pot. Had Ashraque left some experiment unsupervised? 

The glow of two red cat eyes opened in the shadows.

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More about Stalking the Demon:

Alloran lost his hand to thwart his renegade friend–but the world is still going to hell.

Six months after Ladanyon's defeat, Gisayne is fading away from a baffling illness. Alloran is desperate for a cure, but he has a secret–the seven circles of hell are unstable. His worst fear is that the terrible mirror spell cast upon Gisayne has wrought some connection between her and the demon dimensions.

As everything Alloran loves races toward destruction, he does the unthinkable and refuses to obey the council of wizards. The only people who can help him are the two research assistants assigned by the council–but he knows he can't trust them.

The answers are locked away in the last place anyone wants to go: hell.

But someone must.

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