Father Samuel, lost in thought as he'd been, didn't realize anyone had entered until he heard the click of the door closing, and the uncomfortable rustle of someone settling themselves into a kneeling position on the other side of the screen. Th

After that, Terri decided to stop going to church. She was many things now, but she didn't want a hypocrite to be one of them. At the same time, she was terrified by the things she'd discovered about herself. Everything had happened at su

After graduation, she did what was expected of any woman her age. She went away to college in New Orleans, where she majored in Art, hoping to eventually become a Professor, and she got a part-time job in a coffee shop. She didn't so much break u

Of course Cleo wanted to know everything about Terri's encounter with Johnny. To her surprise, Terri found that she felt an eagerness to tell someone. And Cleo, after all, was the only one she could talk to about it. She hadn't planned on tellin

It wasn't long after Terri turned 18 that the visions and dreams began. In the first dream she ever had of the woman she would soon come to think of as "the Crimson Queen," Terri was lost in the woods. Somehow, underneath the deepening azure