Todd Clark – The Evil Element: A Columbia Gorge Paranormal Thriller (EPUB)

A new danger lurks in the blackberry bushes, making the squirrels more anxious than usual. The rat they once knew has changed, but how? And what exactly has it become? And why are its eyes glowing red at night?

For Alice, it’s another dreadful summer vacation in Hood River, Oregon, with her parents. But while her father is windsurfing and her mother tours the wineries, Alice buries her nose in the ancient spellbooks she inherited from her grandfather. And before the summer is over, she will meet some locals, perform a magick ceremony, unwittingly bring an alien element to earth, and discover disturbing family secrets that force her back to LA to talk to the one person who might know the truth—Victor, her grandfather’s closest confidant, and her one-time mentor.
As Alice struggles to accept the truths that Victor reveals in LA, back in Hood River, the evil element is on the hunt for a host. The mysterious sentient element’s first victim is a rat in the grease dumpster of The Red Carpet bar. But the black element is just getting started and won’t be satisfied until it possesses a human. However, a mother squirrel and her daring son are determined to prevent the possessed rat from destroying their little neck of the woods. With the help of a mystical coyote, they summon a champion that can, hopefully, destroy the evil element—The Ape Cat, a black cougar with human-like eyes and some unique paranormal qualities. The problem is, as the Ape Cat travels across the Columbia Gorge to battle the evil element, the same shadow government group that created the paranormal beast is hot on its trail and dead-set on recapturing it.

From shadow government laboratories inside Mt. Adams to sacrificial altars in underground amphitheaters, The Evil Element is a fast-moving adventure set in the scenic Columbia River Gorge pitting mankind against nature, known against the unknown, and good against evil.