By the Light of the Moon

Dylan O'Connor, a young artist, is driving to an arts festival in Santa Fe with his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. He stops to take a room for the night, and a man calling himself a doctor attacks him and injects him with an unknown substance.

The doctor tells him he now carries something that will either kill him or transform his life, and that he must run before the doctor's enemies come for the secret in his blood. Not even the police can help.

Dylan, Shep and a comedian named Jillian Jackson are soon thrown together. Jilly has been injected too. As Dylan urges her to stay with them, a pack of black Suburbans closes in, full of cold-eyed men, and her classic Coupe DeVille explodes. The three flee with no idea who is chasing them or why.

Whatever is in their bodies brings waking nightmares and sinister premonitions. It also pulls them to crime scenes minutes before the crimes happen. Shep's behavior grows more disturbing, and he begins repeating strange messages about an entity who works by the light of the moon.

The whole story unfolds over about twenty-four hours. It is a dark suspense novel with mystery, some humor and a supernatural thread. The puzzle reaches back into a painful shared past of madness, pain and early death, and the clock keeps running as the three try to learn what they have been given.