<p>Finalist - 2020 Eric M Hoffer Awards</p><p>Winner - 2019 Readers' Favorite - Non-fiction True Crime</p><p><br></p><p>On a sweltering summer night, an outcast, brutally tortured, was left to die in a field behind a Houston, Texas graveyard. Later, police discover another victim, but are the two related?</p><p><br></p><p>Written in cinematic narrative, <em>Out Here in the Darkness</em> draws its reader back to 1985 and the dawn of Satanic Panic. Within the first few pages, you'll find yourself an unwilling sixth member of a group of heavy metal fans as they sink into drug-fueled fantasies of bloodshed. You will feel the manipulation of one as he drives his teenage friends into an insatiable eagerness to watch someone die.</p><p><br></p><p>This true crime story carries the reader into inescapable darkness through a three-decade journey behind the walls of a Texas prison with a man seeking to understand how he became a murderer and if his life now has any purpose.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Out Here in the Darkness</em> is a fast-paced eruption of emotions that lingers, compelling the reader to decide what justice means.</p><p><br></p>