ABOUT THE BOOK Jimmy Durham and his roommate, Seth Williams, two students at the University of Morganburg in Morganburg, Virginia, move to a basement apartment for their senior year. On the day of the move, Jimmy learns his girlfriend is murdered. Before her death, she had told him she was working on a shocking story about the town and the campus, but she was killed before she could reveal what she had discovered. Feeling like he's getting no help from the police, Jimmy begins his own investigation, and then all hell breaks loose. A powerful and evil spiritual force is gaining control of the campus and town and is taking possession of Seth. Jimmy and his friends plan to get Seth out of town, but are they too late? ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Osborne is from Atlanta, and he now lives in Tallahassee. He has fourteen short stories published, and his first novel, Children of the Damned.