Book excerpt: She was his muse when he didn’t believe in her. She became his bride, bonded for life. Now, because of what he is, she is exiled, sentenced to inevitable oblivion. Steven Crow has finally accepted his new reality, and his new friends and family. He has embraced the love of his life as his new center. He finally has a path now. A purpose. However, there are forces conspiring to expose his true nature and rip apart his future by any means possible. Thousands of worlds want him dead. An old adversary joins a new enemy to make that happen. He's on the run yet again. His purpose in life now has become trying to exonerate his wife, and staying alive long enough to do that. And yet, is there any truth in what he is accused of? He has not contaminated his wife with a demon child destined to bring about the end of their civilization. Or has he?