Tattoo artist Sarah DeLeune hasn't had a solid night's sleep
in fourteen years, ever since her sister Rachel was brutally
murdered and Sarah was found covered in Rachel's blood. She
fights her inner demons with hard work, prescription
medication and alcohol, if all else fails. Lately Sarah's
been especially haunted by tenuous memories of her past,
maybe brought to the forefront by her estranged father's
impending death from cancer. If she can't lay her demons to
rest now, will she ever be free?
When Sarah's ex-lover, New Orleans homicide detective Sean
Kelton, asks for her assistance on a case, she has no idea
that this case will reverberate in her soul. Not only does
Sarah find the tattoos reminiscent of certain occult and
psychotherapy images, she finds many aspects of this new
murder echo facets of Rachel's murder. Is the same man
responsible for both crimes? The person Sarah believes
responsible for the murder, Ashe Cain, was never seen by
anyone other than Sarah. Does Ashe Cain actually exist? Or
is he a figment of Sarah's imagination?
As more deaths occur, the clues lead to more confusion than
answers. Why was the first murder so organized and the
second one so sloppy? Is there more than one killer stalking
New Orleans? And what is going on in Sarah's hometown of
Adamant, Arkansas? Is a killer at work there too? Just who,
or what, is the source of the strange cloven footprints
found at both Rachel's murder scene and one of the modern ones?
A truly creepy thriller, THE DEVIL'S FOOTPRINTS will keep
readers guessing and second-guessing just who is the
culprit. Squeamish readers will probably want to shy away
from this one, or at least read it during broad daylight.
Ms. Stevens' action-packed climax will keep readers on the
edge of their seats. This story ultimately comes down to
battle of good versus evil for one's soul.
The footprints were etched in the snow for miles,
passing through walls and crossing rivers...appearing on
the other side as though no barrier could stop them.
In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on
his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with
thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the
melting snow...only to reappear seventy years later near
the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.
Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans
tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of
her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was
killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever
seen Ashe. He had 'appeared' to Sarah when she needed a
friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her
sister's murder.
The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies
are found near Sarah's home, the crime desecrated by cloven
footprints.
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