Beautiful Monsters: a Jen Rice novel

New World Response is in a state of panic. Jen Rice, their newest member, has been kidnapped by demons. Governmental agents swarm the town, searching for answers.

Darkness is rising.

Trapped in a living nightmare, Jen must survive the torment of being held hostage by the brutal demons who control her every move. Not only must she find a way to save herself, she needs to discover a way to rescue the others who are trapped alongside her and keep the demons from discovering her awakening powers, powers Jen can't even begin to understand.

Escaping the demons isn't the hardest part. The real challenge is surviving the Darkness... the disease that fuels the demons and powers their unearthly realm. Those who are contaminated are never the same afterwards. Are Jen's new powers her own natural abilities, one she had been missing her whole life, or are they a symptom of her infection with demonic energy?

After life growing up in the beautifully rainy Pacific Northwest, Shanon L. Mayer tends to keep indoors, writing story after story, building vivid worlds on paper while her thoughts hold everything but images. She tends to look at everything in her world for inspiration - especially her collections of skulls, dragon statues, swords and knives, and pretty much anything that fits her eclectic, geeky-gothic lifestyle. When her busy life feels like too much, she can be found relaxing with a hot mug of tea and a documentary on anything from theoretical physics to deep ocean wildlife to the most famous heists the world has ever seen.