Darkness And Light Series

            At fifteen Marcus is taken by a man of unnatural abilities and is forced to live a nightmare.  Gregor, once a victim of his parent's abuse chooses to hate those who are most like the crying child he once was, torturing those showing the strength he never had.              Having held Marcus for thirteen years of torture, Gregor chooses to infect Marcus, forever changing him.  Blood is shared and a new nightmare begins.  Trapped, painfully tormented by what he's been forced to become, Marcus clings to the humanity Gregor tried to erase.  On the night he was to make his first kill, Marcus rescues the little girl and makes his escape.             Twenty years later Gregor returns to the New England town where Marcus escaped him.  The killing begins. Maddy, recognizing Marcus, knows what he has been forced to become but also sees who he really is. Haunted by nightmares of her close encounter with a terrible death, knowing Gregor, has returned, Maddy decides she must help destroy the monster that shaped both their lives. It is with Maddy that Marcus faces his biggest challenge. Will he give in to his unnatural desires or save the soul he has fought so long to keep.              The city of Norwich is besieged by a monster they do not understand.  As the bodies mount, the town's citizens hide in terror behind bolted doors.  Maddy enlists the aid of her brother and with Chief Daniels they work together with one goal: stop Gregor before he kills again.  As the hunt continues, Marcus finds he must fight not only for himself, but for the those he has come to love.

Marcus is taken prisoner by a centuries old vampire, Gregor, two weeks before his fifteenth birthday. In his suffering, Marcus holds onto the memories of his family's love, using the strong ethics they taught him to keep him strong, a strength Gregor does not understand. It is this that helps him to survive. After thirteen years, deciding Marcus cannot be broken, Gregor decides to change him and Marcus is finally able to escape. Even as a vampire, Marcus remains true to his nature. With his memories fading, he returns to those who touched his life. In his journey, Marcus finds kindness in unexpected places. Through out the life he is forced to live, the terrible choices he has to make, Marcus determines that there are reasons to live and sacrifices worth making.

Where There Was Darkness ends with Marcus using his heightened senses, to see into a person's eyes, recognizing the evil some hide within.  Recruited  by FBI agents Yother and Greyson, he is able to use the abilities he thinks of as both a gift and a curse.  The shade of Gregor, the monster who captured him so many years ago, walks in the shadows beside him and Marcus must find a way to tame him.  As Marcus' successes mount, so does the danger to the life he's trying to live.  The terrorist attack on the President's family forces Marcus to make a terrible choice.  Let them die, or do what he can to save them.  Saving them brings him to the attention of the government where skills like his are more than needed.  A new chapter in his too often changing life begins and his never ending hunt for monsters crosses into other countries where he faces dangers to both the life he's leading and to life itself.  Now more than ever he must hide some of what he is and his nemesis, Detective Brian Hawkins, is always watching.  With Maddy by his side and the friendship of Chief Raymond Daniels, Marcus struggles to walk in the light while still being welcomed into the darkness.  

Darkness and LIght Vampires   Searching for the ever-elusive redemption, Marcus finds in this quest he is not alone. Gregor's long journey and both their ultimate fates, depend on the strengths and weaknesses of each other. The dead he could not save haunt Marcus more than the shade walking in the half-world beside him. Marcus' abilities take him to places he never thought to see, paths he never thought to walk, and bringing him into a world threatening to take from him all those he's grown to love. Marcus is still the man fighting to escape the the flames he had once hoped to die in.