From the writer of The Hunger-hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”-comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale replete with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.

Real love can last a long time…but immortality comes at a cost…

On the midnight change at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the casual domestic dispute. However the minute Lanore McIlvrae-Lanny-walks into his ER, she adjustments his life forever. A about The Taker strange woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is normally unlike anyone Luke offers ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her…even though she is a murder suspect with a law enforcement escort. So that as she starts to inform her story, a story of enduring love and consummate betrayal that transcends period and mortality, Luke discovers himself utterly captivated.

Her impassioned accounts begins on the turn of the nineteenth century in the same small city of St. Andrew, Maine, when it was a Puritan settlement. Consumed as a child by her like for the kid from the town’s founder, Lanny will do anything to become with him forever. But the price she pays can be steep-an immortal connection that stores her to a terrible fate for everyone eternity. And today, two centuries afterwards, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. Luke Findley.

Part historical book, component supernatural page-turner, The Taker is an memorable tale about the power of unrequited like not only to raise and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy, and exactly how each folks is in charge of finding our very own path to redemption.