Melanie sat beside him, her face drawn and pale in its frame of curly auburn hair, her mouth a taut line. Throwing up in front of this bunch would just be the icing on the cake. Holes showed in the sagging roof, and only a few chips of pink paint remained on the weathered walls.Ĭaleb’s stomach clenched around the lunch he’d eaten a few hours ago, and he swallowed against the taste of bile. Now it was nothing but a patch of dirt with weeds, and the veranda had half-collapsed into the porch. The house had once been beautiful: two stories plus attic, built sideways to the street, so the front porch and upstairs veranda looked out onto what must have been a garden long ago. The concrete hulk of I-26 loomed nearby, its traffic a distant rumble beneath the overcast sky. They’d parked on the street in front of a row of decaying houses in one of Charleston’s worst neighborhoods. Here we are, said the driver-Dave, was that his name?-as he shut off the van’s engine.Ĭaleb pushed his glasses higher on his nose and peered out the van window. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Hunter of Demons (SPECTR #1) © 2013 Jordan L. And he certainly isn’t going to surrender to the heat growing between them and sleep with Starkweather.īecause if Gray gives in to bloodlust, Starkweather will have no choice but to kill them both.

Having spent his life avoiding the government as an unregistered ‘mal, Caleb can’t let himself trust a federal exorcist, no matter how sexy. But when he’s called to exorcise Caleb, he finds a creature that isn’t supposed to exist outside of stories. Hotshot federal agent John Starkweather thinks he’s seen it all. This hunt goes horribly wrong, and for the first time in his existence Gray is trapped in a living, human body. Gray is a wandering spirit, summoned to hunt and destroy demons by drinking their blood. Unfortunately, his only allies belong to an extremist group who would kill Caleb if they found out about his talent. But when a demon murders his brother, Caleb must avenge Ben’s death, no matter what the cost. Unregistered paranormal Caleb Jansen only wants a normal life.

Hunter of Demons by Jordan L. Hawk