Darkness has been a part of Angelique Carlson’s life since a little girl. Shadows have always roiled and swirled in the periphery. Her family had been the focus of a mass murderer. And the man who had attacked her—was he a vampire?

John Paul Wilkins doesn’t care. He saved Angelique that night, and his unrequited infatuation with her has turned into something more. Their relationship gives him a confidence that changes him.

Angelique changes too. Is it PTSD that haunts her dreams, or have her shadows somehow found their way into her heart? And the question that looms above everything: What had attacked her that night? She has to find the answer.

The growing darkness between them breaks their fragile relationship.

Years later, John is happy with his mundane life, but feels an anxiety growing.  He sees strangers smiling at him on the street.  Angelique has cleaned up, found a new boyfriend, and has secretly begun an investigation into the occult and vampires.

John’s strangers reveal themselves as angels, and they have a revelation: He has been chosen to save the world. Angelique and Everett find her vampire and capture it, but this leads to an even greater question. Who exactly has been captured?

The Dark Betwixt is a 165,000-word dark fantasy, hinting at an evil as ancient as the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. From the metropolitan streets of Baltimore to the holy city of the Vatican, John and Angelique discover they are chosen to fight against each other in a war as old as eternity. At the center of it all is the return of the Queen of the Night. The Dark Betwixt is the first of a trilogy. The second, The Dark Matter, is under construction.

I am a first time novelist. I taught middle and high school English for eighteen years, but presently work in corporate marketing.