title: Invasion
author: Palmerin, Mary E.
description: David Hearse doesn't exist. He's so high up the intel ladder that if our enemies knew what he knew we'd all be compromised. He protects the matriarch, code name the Queen. His code name is Bogeyman, the shadow without form, the one who fuels nightmares. When he finds himself in a living hell he becomes savage, uncovering a side to himself he suppressed.
  Now homeless he's living in a basement, but he's a snoop. It's his ingrained nature to spy, to uncover secrets, and he finds all of Carly's scars and hidden traumas. She hides it behind a sunny smile and a spry walk, but she's hurting. What she cannot anticipate is that the god at her door is living under her floor, and she'll bleed for him. He is Carly's nemesis, she just never knew it.
  Some secrets are best disclosed in the final breath.
  True love, is sacrifice.