Before vampires and werewolves there were Diablons. If you discovered you were a monster, could you kill like one? Eat like one? Make love like one? What if you were the bad guy in the story? In the dark forest, something malevolent awaits Norfolk's worst sinners. Monster? Demon? Dark Spirit? Rumours abound as to what dreadful imagining resides within. Lilitha is not a sinner, but when she tries to defend herself and her best friend against the town's most powerful and lecherous knight, she is hauled into the forest's depths. There, she discovers that the rumours are true. Something dreadful does roam between the trees. In the darkness. In the quiet. Something that slaughters at whim and feasts on forbidden flesh. Will Lilitha escape with her life-or does she want to be caught? Excerpt only.