Seven Days of the Demon

Charlotte Pearce is sixteen and after spending six weeks in the hospital recovering from a road accident, she is surprised when a distant Aunt arrives to collect her. Her Father has been taken ill in France during a business conference and her Mother has flown out to stay with him until he’s fit enough to return home. So, Charlotte has no option but to go stay with her Aunt in a crumbling ruin of a house deep in the countryside. Aunt Sarah has enough problems of her own as her son Nick has fallen from his bedroom window three days earlier and is now in a coma. On her first night, Charlotte sees a strange vision of the boy in the bathroom mirror. He appears to be standing on a large circular stone and begs her for help before he transforms into a hideous creature with piercing red eyes.
Charlotte is certain she’s having a breakdown and the only bright spot to life in the depressing atmosphere is Holly, a lively fourteen year old cousin she has only just met for the first time. She too has seen strange visions of Nick, begging her to help him but has no idea what to do about it. She tells Charlotte that the boy is standing on the Penny Stone, an unremarkable lump of concrete set into the ground less than a mile from the house, during his strange appearances. Holly has an unnatural love of the dark and is obsessed with Demons, aliens and monsters. She soon has Charlotte out exploring in the early hours of the morning and shows her strange lights in the sky and the stone. They notice it has recently been smashed to pieces. A strange old woman forces a piece of triangular iron into Charlotte’s hand, telling her to get it underground at all costs. One look at her terrified face tells her it’s important, but little does she realise that the tiny artefact is the final piece of a jigsaw that will allow a powerful Demon to return to earth to exact a terrible revenge on the families of the men who have cheated him at this very spot over sixty years earlier. He is owed a huge debt and he means to collect. Nick’s fall is just the first step in a scary series of events that will end in one terrifying conclusion, unless Charlotte can keep a cool head in the four days she has left to stop the beast.