Someone's Watching
Five-year-old James Merritt lies in a hospital bed--the sixth  victim in a series of accidents plaguing a peaceful Connecticut  community.  'Maybe if he pretends to be asleep, the shadow man will go  away.  He sees the glint of the needle.  The pain does not alarm him.   In his wildest imagining, he has never dreamed death would come in such  a tiny, innocent way.'  Cinnie Merritt holds her son's limp and  weightless hand, trying to explain away the injuries that don't add up,  the strange medical reactions, the nonsense words he keeps repeating,  the shattering sense of foreboding. Something is wrong. Something is  very, very wrong.  'Please let my baby be all right.  Please let him  wake up and be fine.'  At night, a stalking figure makes its silent way  into the hospital room.'You belong to me now, child of my  salvation.  Wellspring of health and healing.  Sweet servant of the  dark moon.  From the dark corner of a mother's world nightmare . .  .Someone's Watching.