Book excerpt: A streetwise James Jesse Dowell wouldn’t buy the legend of some Eskimo beast/god until James witnessed the soul-crazed bush doctor come to horrifying life at forty thousand feet in the Arctic sky. Now James must stalk said demon/sawbones and kill the beast that rules Charles Patrick MacHenery’s soul, or James, his terrified self, will never be free of the maddening curse that’s pounding ever louder in his spinning head like some demonic sealskin drum. But how does one destroy a suspect werewolf that can only die by a loving hand? That is through an escaped moon demon that hasn’t made fulfilling love in over 530 chain-shackled years and desperately desires to know. That said manlike beast has been trapped by his new eternal love—Ms. Amanda De’la’ray. She’s as witchy as the swampy Louisiana wilds she fairly rules, face scarred and moonshine giggly as she’s already been left by a fanged local devil. “Prays ya never sees the devil, Mr. Dowell.”