Synopsis: Gregory and the Gossamer Blade

Gregory Myrlin is a liar. There are no encouraging words, no long-breathed explanations pointing to some terrible injustice in his past. He is simply a liar, and a very good one at that. So long has he lived with this fault that he no longer knows the difference in the truth around him and the wall of lies he has built. Today that will all change....today he will come face to face with the consequences of every falsehood he ever weaved into existance. It will not be a good day.

The story centers around Gregory, a boy that perpetually lies about everything, which will be addressed along with the reasons behind it in the book. Though he does feel some sort of regret for lying ( a proverbial demon on his back), he continues nonetheless.

In the book Gregory has already come in contact with the girls from my previous books and has actually been to the realm before...through the Standing Stone. This time it will be different, though.

Gregory is kidnapped by a desperate gang of underage demons, denizens of the Dark Night, a series of cavern-like catacombs ruled by the Lady of the Night. Once there, Gregory learns that the proverbial demon on his back is, in fact, real and missing in action.

The demon, Ghrim Ironic, is one of the Consequencors, a race of demons tasked with being the so-called conscious of various children. When a child does something wrong the demon works to use that guilt or worry to nudge the child back to doing good, if that fails they must care for that guilt until the child either faces it or grows beyond it, when it is released for the "adult" to deal with on his/her own. Unfortunately, Gregory's lack of guilt for his actions all these years has all but overwhelmed his demon, to the point that now Ghrim has been captured by the living embodiment of that forgotten guilt. Calling itself the Black Cold, the monster feeds on the lies and guiltless apathy Gregory pours out every day. Ever hungering for more, the creature now wants total control of the Dark Night, and the nightmares that lurk there. Only it can't leave its cavern as long as Ghrim, and Gregory, survive.

Forced by Ghrim's son to help find and free his father, Gregory must retrieve the only weapon capable of destroying the creature he is responsible for creating: the Gossamer Blade. Can he win the blade and save Ghrim, and the realm, before the Black Cold takes over....