FOURTEEN DAYS

Workaholic developer Richard Gardener is laid up at home for two weeks mandatory leavedoctors orders No stress No computers Just fourteen days of complete rest Bliss for most but hell for Richard in more ways than one Theres a darkness that lives inside Richards home a presence he never knew existed because he was seldom there alone Did he just imagine those footsteps The smoke alarm shrieking The woman in his kitchen His wife thinks hes just suffering from work withdrawal but as the days crawl by in his solitary confinement the terror seeping through the walls continues to escalatethreatening his health his marriage and his sanity When the inconceivable can no longer be denied Richard is forced to come to terms with what is happening Can he find a way to banish the darkness before he becomes an exile in his own home Steven Jenkins weaves such masterful shades of weirdness between the workaholic programmers inner psyche and the supernatural elements he encounters that the reader is equally unsure if they are realor just products of his overworked brain I did not want to put the book down until the mystery was solved Val Muller author The Scarred Letter