The Fourth House

Travis Greene's life fell apart when his little sister died after joining a high school cult. Now he's a 22-year-old addict living with his emotionally parasitic friend at the house of a psychotic drug dealer. One night, a terrifying discovery changes everything he knew about his sister's death.16-year-old Lauren Alvarez is looking into the disappearance of her friend Annie. When Annie comes to Lauren in secret, she's deranged and injured. She says that someone is slowly destroying her, and Lauren is next.As Travis navigates San Antonio's criminal and occult underworlds in a mission to save an unknown girl, he's forced to battle his addictions, weigh the value of those he loves against each other, and come face-to-face with a violent monster arising within him. Meanwhile, Lauren is finding herself under physical and psychological attack from all angles - and edging closer to those pulling the strings.The Fourth House is about what's crawling in the tunnels beneath your feet, orbiting above your head, and looking at you through your neighbor's window. It is a gritty yet moving mystery thriller at an epic scale, a story of hardboiled crime taking root in an unexpected place and the cosmic forces that connect us all.