DELIVER US FROM EVIL

<p>When Specialist Patrick Sullivan is killed in Mosul a relic carried home doesn't stop fighting. Weeks later in Boston fourteen-year-old Ashlyn wakes with phrases of Latin on her tongue and during Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross she speaks with a voice that isn't her own.</p><p>Father Michael Donnelly has buried more prayers than he's seen answered. Called to the Sullivans' home he finds a family cracking under grief and something that watches from the dark. Whispers inside the Church call it the Umbra Dei the Shadow of God: a presence that feeds on doubt and survives wherever faith has thinned. Sister Helena is sent from Rome to assist. </p><p>Reluctantly Father Michael and Sister Helena follow a trail through Boston to a monastery in Vermont for documents the Vatican prefers to forget and a reliquary that never should have come home from the Nineveh Plains. As Ashlyn's manifestations escalate Father Michael and Sister Helena must decide whether obedience or courage will save a life.</p><p></p><p>DELIVER US FROM EVIL is a relentless supernatural thriller about a family under siege a priest out of answers and a city where the light doesn't quite reach. Perfect for readers who enjoy possession horror with investigative edges church lore and hidden archives and high-tension hauntings grounded in real places and grief.</p><p>Faith is a weapon. Doubt is the doorway. And once opened some doors will not close by themselves.</p><p>Some wars don't end. They come home.</p>