Demon Eyes
L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims
Leisure, Dec 2007, $6.99, 378 pp.
ISBN: 9780843959727

She is being offered a chance of a lifetime, to be promoted to personal assistant to Alex Keltner, the managing director of Keltner Industries. The offer is so sudden that she needs time to think about it. When she gets home she tells her lover about it who finds it a two edged sword. On one hand they need the money but on the other hand Helen doesn’t want Emma traveling for long periods of time. They agree she will try out the position and if it doesn’t work out, she will leave.

While Emma is accepting the offer, Helen dies in what seems like a supernatural event. While grieving, Emma must act the hostess at her boss’s country home where all the firm’s most important clients are attending. Her former boss gives her a warning to get out while she can but shows fear when Alex watches them. Emma notice that later her ex-boss is nowhere to be found. Emma sees and feels things that make her believe she is dealing with people who only wear the mask of humanity. She’s afraid that if she doesn’t escape, she will end up being their puppet, doing what they want with no will of her own.

L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims write a true horror story that will scare the heck out of readers. The heroine is forced to come to terms with what she sees and at first denies because it seems possible that the Keltners have a strange interest in her as if she is a key to their future. People who know the Keltners for what they are join forces to try to rescue Emma and if successful, though that is doubtful, might even save the human race.

Harriet Klausner