The Acquaintance — Kealan Patrick Burke

For Ger Kelly, coming home after years of incarceration, drug abuse, and violence, is a bittersweet event, but it's worth it for the chance to start a new life.

But not everyone is so happy to leave him forget his past, and Ger is about to find out the hard way that the shadows are thickest in the last place you expect to find them, and that for people like him, safe havens are an illusion.

A novelette by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke.