Sacred Prey - Hardcover

Sacred Prey begins with the cold-blooded murder of a young couple who are hunted down by two relentless brothers through the back bayous of southern Louisiana. Adam Claiborne, the elder and more adept of the brothers, runs a lucrative loan-sharking business and had seen to it that, one way or another, the couple paid their debt. Being a devout Catholic, with less than honorable dealings with the church, Adam makes his contributions and all is forgiven... until now.
When he confesses the murder with a chilling nonchalance, he is surprised to find a new priest on the receiving end of his admission. The mysterious priest refuses the much needed absolution. "Until you know the sorrows of your victims, your sins cannot be forgiven."
Adam is tormented by the refusal. That night he sleeps restlessly, with one hellish nightmare after another. He goes back to the place where he left the dead bodies, only to find the young, beautiful woman still alive. As she seduces him, he awakens to find himself inhabiting the flesh of his victim. It is three days back in time, and he is now trapped in the body of his intended quarry.
With a new perspective on his victim's last unimaginable days of terror, Adam must fight for his life against the dark force he, himself, created. Unless destiny itself can be altered, Adam is about to be hunted, cornered and brutally murdered... by the merciless killer who, somewhere, wears his face.

Vivian Schilling is a screenwriter as well as a novelist, her previous works garnering the Saturn Award and the Golden Scroll Award. She divides her time between Los Angeles and Fayetteville, Arkansas.