Lou hung up on that note and Stroud felt strangely alone, and yet strangely at peace. He knew that he had taken each step in his fight against Kerac and Kerac's kind with the intention to safeguard human life; he knew, as Lou and Anna knew, that he was not the fiendish architect of evil, but the demolition expert of evil; he trusted firmly that his visions and his actions were right actions. Stroud thought of the incredible heritage of his family, brought to his attention not by his father who had been killed by a vampire's conniving, but by his dead grandfather's spirit which he had inherited along with Stroud Manse; he now invited visitations from the benevolent ghost of his past which continued to guide his steps.
Finally, Abraham H. Stroud was beginning to accept his "aberration" and his difference. He accepted even the fact that he had somehow survived a battlefield in Southeast Asia that no one else had survived. He accepted the fact that he survived the Andover devils that had infested that place for generations before he had arrived, kept at bay all those years by his ancestors. He also accepted his fate in regard to Kerac's attempts to destroy him, and in doing so destroying almost everyone around him. He had been spared to finish out his life, to encounter again and to struggle again with evil.
Stroud now knew beyond any doubt that this destiny was ordained by a higher power, a power that had implanted a psychic gift from nature, and a power that had crowned this gift with a melding of mind and minerals in the steel plate in his head. All to stave off the satanic, the horrific and the abominable in this world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert W. Walker is the author of more than forty published novels, beginning with SUB-ZERO in 1979. He has millions of books in print. You can visit him at www.robertwalkerbooks.com.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE INSTINCT THRILLERS featuring FBI forensic pathologist Dr. Jessica Coran
Killer Instinct
Fatal Instinct
Primal Instinct
Pure Instinct
Darkest Instinct
Extreme Instinct
Blind Instinct
Bitter Instinct
Unnatural Instinct
Grave Instinct
Absolute Instinct
THE EDGE THRILLERS featuring Detective Lucas Stonecoat
Cold Edge
Double Edge
Cutting Edge
Final Edge
THE GRANT THRILLERS featuring Medical Examiner Dean Grant
Floaters
Scalpers
Front Burners
Dying Breath
THE RANSOM MYSTERIES featuring 19th century detective Alastair Ransom
City for Ransom
Shadows in the White City
City of the Absent
THE DECOY THRILLERS featuring Chicago cop Ryne Lanarck
Blood Seers
Wind Slayers
Hand-to-Hand
THE BLOODSCREAMS SERIES featuring archeologist Abraham Stroud
Vampire Dreams
Werewolf’s Grief
Zombie Eyes
HORROR NOVELS
Dr. O
Disembodied
Aftershock
Brain Stem
Abaddon
The Serpent Fire
Flesh Wars (the sequel to The Serpent Fire)
Children of Salem
THRILLER NOVELS
Sub-Zero
PSI: Blue
Deja Blue
Cuba Blue (with Lyn Polkabla)
Dead On
Thrice Told Tales (short stories)
YOUNG ADULT
Daniel Webster Jackson & the Wrong Way Railroad
Gideon Tell & the Siege of Vicksburg
NON FICTION
Dead On Writing – Thirty Years of Writerly Advice