Provoked (The Roots of Creation)

In the recesses of desperate minds, a seductive voice takes hold. The possessing tones belong to a beast imprisoned in the hereafter, manipulating wishes and distracting ambitions. Pressing for escape, he has become fixated on a troubled girl with a mysterious past, believing she can break the ancient spell that binds him and clear the way for his suffocating fury to consume the living worlds… and beyond. On modern Earth, Gregg is an angst-ridden teenager infatuated with his blossoming best friend, Jody. Thrown into a battle to defend her, he becomes caught between life and death and glimpses the beast’s treacherous ruse. He slips away to begin a frantic search for his love, but time is running out. In the series, The Roots of Creation, an intricate cast of humans and demons comes crashing together and their desperate fight over the girl erupts amidst schemes and intrigue that inflict heartache, terror and ecstasy. It weaves the journeys of lifetimes that will ultimately seal the fate of The Beast… or surrender to him the last light of heaven, forever.

J. Edward Vance is a guy who sits too much. Once an active, leanly-built fellow living and working in the suburbs of Vancouver, British Columbia, he now pokes excessively at his keyboard and glares at his computer screen praying that something brilliant will appear.