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Evie Rhodes (Author)
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)


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February 1, 2005
From award-winning gospel songwriter Evie Rhodes comes a novel of profound loss…of a single mother’s fight to protect her family from danger on the city streets—and a terror from beyond that she alone can stop… Tracie Burlingame is said to have eyes that change color like the skin of a chameleon. She approaches a psychic on a whim, but whatever the old woman sees in Tracie’s future frightens her beyond words and reason…

The proud mother of four teenage sons, Tracie does everything she can to keep them safe from trouble in their rough Harlem neighborhood. Being the best momma she knows how in a sometimes unforgiving city is an exhausting job, but Tracie never regrets one minute spent with her boys. Yet despite all her efforts to bring them up right, she loses her eldest son to drug addiction, gaining only his hatred in return for her love. But the grief Tracie feels for her first born is nothing compared to what she suffers after the brutal death of her baby—drained of blood and thrown from a rooftop. What kind of monster would kill an innocent child so horribly?

The police investigation reveals no motive to point to a murderer, and even if there were, Tracie has trouble believing that the worst of criminals could commit such a brutal act. Soon enough, it becomes clear that her child’s life was taken by something, rather than someone. Something from Tracie’s past that has returned with a vengeance—and that can only be defeated if she is willing to embrace a weapon of unimaginable power


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Robert Fleming ..In the grim reality of the Hood, young mothers pray to protect the demons of urban blight, drugs and crime. Evie Rhodes has turned the horror genre upside down by creating a haunting hybrid of Bram Stoker's mythical monster blended with the social and spiritual concerns of James Baldwin. Her writing is often terrifying, harrowing, finely written with more than a few soul-numbing frights. It's a roller-coaster ride of terror, wildly inventive, and ultimately, a well-tuned morality tale of our chaotic times. — Author of Havoc After Dark: Tales of Terror, The African American Writer's Handbook

About the Author

Evie Rhodes is a novelist, award-winning songwriter, and music video scriptwriter. She wrote "Standing in da Spirit," which won a Canadian Music Award for Best Gospel Album, and scripted "Changed," which won for Best Gospel Music Video. Her musical contributions are aired on radio and television in the U.S. and in 168 countries around the globe. Evie has been interviewed and showcased in numerous television, radio, and print media features and has been a featured writer in The Gospel Magazine.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Kensington (February 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0758208707
  • ISBN-13: 978-0758208705
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,148,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Ok book to read, January 20, 2006
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It took me a while to get into the book, all the way the chapter 20, and it does frustrate you with all constant repeats of everyones first and last name. I do believe this is my first and last book that I will read by this author.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars So what?, June 17, 2005
This review is from: Expired (Paperback)
Now I've tried to make it a point to read any book that I picked out at least to the 61st page, but I got to Page 58 and just returned it. I don't believe the writer is a bad writer, it's just the author failed with one very important detail. I MUST CARE ABOUT THE DEAD PERSON! By page 58, I really didn't know more than three short things about the boy who died--he liked nice boots, he played basketball well, and he liked roofs. Wow, now I really care who killed him. WRONG! I found out more detail about the cops than I did about the victim, and definitely more about the killer. Isn't that a little backwards? I couldn't hang.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Nice concept, but wrong execution, June 23, 2006
This review is from: Expired (Paperback)
I like some of the readers picked this book up on a whim. Figured it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. And I stuck by this book through thick and thin just to give it a fair chance. Normally, I can finish a book within hours if it is truly interesting, but I found it took me days to finish this book as I kept on having to put it down to give myself a break, before forcing myself to pick it back up again. I eventually had to ressort to skipping over sections that had a tendency to repeat themselves.

My major problem with it was the pacing of the story. It was too fragmented, sometimes going fast, sometimes dragging on. There was never really a steady fast pace that would make it an easy read.
Character descriptions and depth could have been fleshed out more. It was very much a one-dimensional book, where you couldn't really connect with the characters at all. You knew what they thought and how they felt, but you just could not connect with them, which made it even harder to really digest the underlying message being driven in this entire novel. This message was lost too much in the murky and stagnant pace of the story, before being somewhat fully revealed towards the end of the novel.

The idea was a nice concept, but probably could have been executed a bit better.
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