Penance
READING AGE 18+
Bound by misery. Marked by sin. Set free by death.
Barely into their teens, without homes, they dwell in neon shadows, the violent eddies of urban America. They trade their innocence for money, abuse their hopes, and then a monster comes ...
A monster without fangs or claws, but more deadly. Because of them, he has lost everything: his wife, his family. And he vows to clean the streets of Chicago ... for good.
One of the street kids and a man of the cloth form a desperate pact. Together, they will find the madman whose basement has become a chamber of horrors ...
Unfold
Epilogue
Richard held the dark-haired girl close to him as he watched the blaze. The heat from it warmed his face in the cold of this December dawn. Pinkish-grey light was just beginning to show over the eastern horizon.
Around him, the others were gathered in a tight circle. None of them spoke. Each of their faces was u……
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