Dark Heart, by Darren J Guest

This month we bring you the opening of Darren J Guest's intelligent, complex horror novel, Dark Heart, read by Daniel Barzotti.On Leo's sixteenth birthday. something bad happened. Something so traumatic his mind fractured, and darkness filled the crack. Twenty years on and the crack is a canyon. The schizophrenic hallucination that offered sympathy has taken to mocking him, and the memory of that long-ago birthday claws at his darkest fears, overshadowing even the murder of his younger brother Davey. But just when Leo thinks life can't get and worse... Leo dies. A demon returns after twenty years. An Angel follows close behind. Leo is caught in an age-old conflict, his past lying at the dark heart of it all. To find out more about Dark Heart and about Darren Guest, visit his blog at www.darrenjguest.com