Dark Steps

by Brian Hershey

A grisly murder has occurred and social services case manager, Derrick Mayes, is assigned to the case to provide therapeutic services to the only witness who has been left in a catatonic state, a young boy named Lucas. Despite being overwhelmed, frustrated, and battling emotional challenges of his own, Derrick reluctantly agrees to take the case. Yet the more involved he becomes, the more he realizes that darker, more sinister forces are at work. Derrick is ultimately faced with a grim reality of truth and torment...

126 pages, Paperback

Published April 20, 2021

About the author

Brian has been writing since 2009 and has seventeen years of experience teaching Middle School English and Language Arts & Creative Writing in urban districts. He has two master's degrees, one from The Ohio State University in Education and the other from Northern Kentucky University in English/Creative Writing. Since then, he has produced five separate books, "Hurry Up, Slowly", "Life, Like", "Dark Steps", "Forgotten Sin", & his newest "Damned to Live". Brian is also a certified fiction book editor who helps authors with their structural design & copy-editing needs. Brian specializes in Horror, Science Fiction, Romance, and Fantasy Fiction as well as writings that pertain to the field of Education and Teaching. He has also written decodable readers for DK Publishing, Lerner Publishing, and Benchmark Education Company.  

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