Killing Time

Daniel Nash, a recent widower drifting through life, takes a job remodeling an isolated old house in the Louisiana bayou. His life takes a sudden terrifying turn when an 18-year-old woman staggers out of the misty darkness, bloodied and beaten. She desperately pleads for Daniel’s help, and warns him that her attacker is right behind her.

Daniel takes the distraught young woman in, but while he is searching for his phone to call for help, he hears her blood-curdling scream from the other room. Daniel frantically searches the disorienting old house but is unable to find the mysterious young woman or her attacker.

Who was she? Who was trying to kill her? Did she get away? The disturbing incident shakes Daniel to the core and sends him on an obsessive quest....

A quest in which Daniel tries to change the outcome of a murder that occurred a decade earlier.

©2020 John Penney (P)2023 Mark Alan Miller