Stephen Mark Rainey

"Over there, it's a cruel, dark place. The master tells me that when Quentin Collins finds my heart, I can come back. Now I am back."

Over a century ago, the first Quentin Collins built a stairway to traverse time, opening the way to countless, unimaginable realms of past and future. To prevent his family’s destruction, he dismantled his creation, but now a new, mysterious stairway has appeared at Collinwood. The present-day Quentin finds himself drawn to explore the shadows at its farthest reaches, only to discover that the power lurking there holds no love for any members of the Collins family—Quentin in particular.

To save himself—and his family—from destruction, Quentin forges an unlikely alliance with Angelique, herself a dangerous agent of darkness. But if she uses her powers to help him, she risks her own eternal damnation. Can the two of them prevail over this new terror before it destroys them both—and ultimately consumes the entire Collins family?

CHRONOLOGICAL PLACEMENT:
This story takes place after the 1971 Present Day storyline.