Such Pain — Don Bassingthwaite

HOMECOMING

Yesterday Aaron Barry was an international playboy. Today, with his father's death, he assumes control of a giant financial empire.

Step One--fire all his father's advisers. Men he hated anyway.

Step Two--establish relations with the press. Particularly the sexy young reporter from KKBA.

Step Three--go home. Literally. To the mansion he has been terrified to enter for more than a decade. Where something waits for him in a dark hallway. Something small, dark, fetid; a childhood friend summoned from the darkness that never went away.

And begin Step Four --