The Cuckoo House

A young couple struggling with their own issues tries to start over in a house made vacant by the previous owners' deaths. Jane has had a series of miscarriages and wants only to conceive and start a family. Steve, a budding author, hopes to research the deaths of the previous inhabitants and write a thriller inspired by the events. As the hot summer stretches out, their goals collide and Steve begins to suspect that an evil presence lurks in the house, turning their dreams toward its own dark purpose. Excerpt "The Nephilim fled from the lands of men and lived apart in the hills and the deserts, but when the great flood came, it killed them all. Meaning, it destroyed their bodies. When the watersreceded again, all their spirits were loosed upon earth." "For a time, there were more Nephilim than humans, and their spirits drifted with the wind all around the face of the earth. But the humans multiplied and spread out, and theNephilim learned to use their connection to the clay to anchor themselves in places people might inhabit. Caves, to begin with. As the cave is to a web, so the Nephilim is to a spider. The people seeking shelter were the flies." "Over the course of time, it goes from caves to huts to houses to condos, and supposedly this one went to a hunting lodge outside of Moribor, Slovenia." Steve shook his head. "See, the reason I can't believe in ghosts or demons is that if they were real, it would be obvious. They would be everywhere all the time, not hidden or secret." "Okay, but only forty-nine Nephilim sprang from Lilith's side. That's not so many, and mostly they're just playing at being real people, or they're hidden in some house, just waiting. Watching." A breeze stirs the trees, and the leaves whisper. The men look up. A limb sways overhead and scrapes the side of the house, gentle as a lover's caress. Brian shivers and stands. "I should go."

• | Author: Andre Harden
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 174 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1977674526
• | ISBN-13: 9781977674524