Book excerpt: Ivola Hoffman was once a vibrant, bubbly and charming twenty-four-year-old woman who now found life to be mundane and routine. Coming home from work one afternoon, she experiences a phenomenon that flings her world into darkness. Her friends abandon her, her dreams turn to nightmares and her touch turns deadly. What is she? Why is an evil entity after her? And why does the name Lola resonate in her mind?Far away from home and people that love her, Ivy tries hopelessly to stay alive in a strange world that has suddenly turned against her.