THIS PRESENT DARKNESS
by Frank Peretti
Something is wrong in Ashton, a small college town where nothing much ever seems to happen. Nothing, that is, until Bernice Krueger, a persistent investigative reporter, is thrown in jail after photographing the police chief in a cladstine meeting behind a carnival booth.
Her employer Marshell Hogan, from the town's newspaper the Aston Clarion, knows she's stumbled across something far bigger than a mere political scandal when he compares notes with Hank Bushe, pastor of the Ashton Community Church.
A suspicious suicide, a rash of New Age courses at the college, a mysterious power broker from New York, and a desperate young woman on the run all converge in a frightening malevolent threat to the town -- and to the entire human race.