More Than Life Itself

From the jacket:

A father desperate to do anything to save his dying child. An empty-eyed vagrant who is far more than he seems. An ancient ritual powered by blood and sacrifice. When these three things come together on a dark June night, one man’s world will never be the same.

Sam Dalton is teetering on the edge of despair when a chance encounter with the Preacher gives him the opportunity he has been searching for, the chance to bring his precious daughter back from the very brink of death, if only he is strong enough to go through with what needs to be done.

How far would you go to save the life of someone you love?

Sam Dalton is about to find out

Reviews

“A filler free and nicely old fashioned tale” – SFX Magazine

“This novelette is at its most powerful when it is describing a man tormented by the decline and imminent death of his only daughter. When a mysterious apparition suggests that he make use of an ancient ritual which can save her, but only if he is willing to commit seven murders, he is initially horrified as well as skeptical. But then the opportunity to commit the first arises almost by chance, and it works, so he finds himself firmly set on the path of homicide to save her. But there is a catch. There’s always a catch. You’d think even fictional characters would know that by now.” – Unused review for Science Fiction Chronicle by Don D’Ammassa

“…a nasty little chiller that slices through the squeamish with surgical precision.” – SFCrowsnest