title: Shadows Fall
author: Agnew, Denise A.
description: Present Day, Simple, Colorado
  
  Evil is spreading beyond previous boundaries, beyond the horrors of the past. Only one man and one woman can stop it.
  
  Melissa Allan realizes something is wrong one windy, violent day. People are getting their just deserts. Karma is piling on the punishment, even for small offenses or misunderstandings hardly worth a blink. Melissa, owner of the only new age store in Simple, realizes that the air is disturbed, and that the former asylum on the mountain has something to do with strange happenings around town. Sensitive to the paranormal, she helps those in Simple who feel the need for advice beyond the conventional. Forces in town who want things to stay the same are against her, and she knows it.
  
  Ex-marine Roarke O'Bannion hasn't seen a freak out like this since he was in war. A search for his missing mother brings him to Tranquil View Condominiums for answers. He's not interested in the paranormal and thinks people who believe in it just need more medication. He thinks Melissa fed his mother's belief in ghosts, and he plans on giving her a piece of his mind. Instead he finds a woman who challenges everything he's believed in and makes him burn with desire.
  
  When Melissa is in danger, he discovers he'll do anything to save her, and together they'll battle the unseen until midnight comes or the evil seething inside Tranquil View consumes them all.