Secrets and Shadows: Book 2
 
He's Haunted...
Andrew Gavin knows he's a train wreck. Well before all the gore he's seen as a detective, Andrew's first trauma was seeing a gruesome suicide when he was only seventeen. Ever since, a delusion he calls The Dead Boy appears whenever his anxiety spirals too close to the edge... 
 
He's Hunted...
Goaded by The Dead Boy, Andrew shoots andkills an unarmed teenager in what appears to be a fit of rage. Now, suspended from the force and waiting a possible murder charge, Andrew retreats home to the Rocky Mountains. There, The Dead Boy taunts him every day. Except...
 
He Hungers...
Elizabeth McBrien, the childhood sweetheart Andrew scorned, is also in the Rockies - and she shocks him by revealing that she too sees The Dead Boy. Astonished - the delusion is a ghost?- Andrew is furely her rattled to learn that The Dead Boy has 'befriended' Kyle King, a gravely ill kid who Elizabeth adores. 
 
Now its specter vs. cop in a race to save Kyle's life, and The Deas Boy insisits that Kyle's survival hinges on the secrets Andrew's buried about the long-ago suicide. Yet Andrew knows the truth will destory him... and annihilate any new chance he may have with Elizabeth. But the clock is ticking, Kyle is dying, and The Dead Boy is prepared to sacrifice anything - or anyone - in order to once again walk the living...