Or that’s the way I liked to think of him because really, he wasn’t a malevolent creature…maybe just opportunistic, and Caleb just so happened to be the one in the way at the moment opportunity knocked. The Gray in this equation, by the way, is a centuries old drakul, a vampire, if you will, who isn’t really evil, he’s just misunderstood. The problem, however, is two-fold: 1.) Everyone seems to think it’s Caleb’s possessor that needs killing, and 2.) when it comes to sides here, there’s a definite line between who is good and who is evil, and the side I fell on in that estimation was certainly not the one trying to hoist “Gray” with his own petard, nor was it the side that eventually wants to see Caleb done in for something for which he isn’t guilty.

Sounds rather topical, doesn’t it? Well, it is.Ĭaleb is led directly into battle to rescue the body of his dead brother from a parasitic being who hops from host to host in search of a vehicle to use in its hunt for a demon that really, really needs killing. Caleb, you see, is an unregistered mal-a human with paranormal powers-and to be so, to be different in this world, means to become a target of those who’ve appointed themselves the ultimate authority that sits at the right hand of God and metes out their own form of vigilante judgment in His name to those who threaten their fundamentalist, self-righteous beliefs. If, that is, anyone outside of his immediate family knew of his telekinetic abilities, limited as they may be.

In fact, when it comes right down to it, it’s the last thing he’d have ever wanted because Caleb himself is a bit of a paranormal entity some might even go so far as to call him an aberration or abomination or any other manner of cruel labels humans have come up with to assign to those who are different. After all, it’s not as if he purposely bargained his spiritual or moral integrity away for the allure of the power that comes with being possessed by a spook of the dangerous variety. I am right here, behind your prejudices – LoesjeĬaleb Jansen didn’t mean to become possessed by a Non-Human Entity.

Hunter of Demons by Jordan L. Hawk