Devil's Messenger

On one hot August night, 15-year-old Cassandra Harper's life is shattered. First, she becomes a victim of date rape, then the body of her beloved father, Richard Harper, is found slumped over the computer he gave Cassandra for her 15th birthday.From that point on, Cassandra withdraws from the world, reserving her communications to her anonymously-written blog and to instant messenger conversations with her dead father. Devil's Messenger, a combination horror story and murder mystery, is the story of how Cassandra battles from the brink of despair to reclaim her life, and her evil father who attempts to continue his reign of terror from beyond the grave. Adding to the mix is Richard Harper's murderer, who is manipulating Cassandra's family and everyone else in the small community of Westport seeking the hidden fortune that Harper left behind. Devil's Messenger is a roller-coaster ride of terror from beginning to end.

Randy Turner is an eighth-grade English teacher at South Middle School in Joplin, MO, and spent more than two decades as a journalist, earning more than 100 awards. His first novel, Small Town News, was published in 2005.