Twilight Dynasty: Courting Evil, Barry H. Smith, Erica House, 1999
Set near present-day Toronto, Canada, Kyle Morrow is a hot-shot private attorney who has become involved in past-life regression. He has been searching his previous lives looking for answers to the usual contemporary problems: women, money and a stagnant career. His niece, Mandy, comes to him with a story that she was chased, and almost killed, by some sort of demonic entity.
A series of unsolved murders point to the estate of Victor Janus, extremely rich media mogul, and his spiritual guru son, Thomas, who has started a local spiritual college. Mandy was a student at that college. Father and son are the type who have the money, and power, to buy and sell judges, politicians and members of the media, so they are practically untouchable. Thomas is also going through past-life regression, through the same beautiful female psychic as Morrow; she is also being stalked by an unknown person. Thomas has learned a lot about using demonic forces and hypnosis to get what he wants; it seems that he and Morrow were enemies back in Atlantis. As Morrow gets too close for comfort, he learns first-hand just how good Janus is at long-distance hypnosis. Thinking that he was back in Atlantis, about to murder a female captive, Kyle learns, too late, that he has just murdered Jennifer, his common-law wife, on the grounds of the Janus estate. It becomes a battle for Morrow, not just against evil, but, for his life, his soul, and ultimately his sanity.
There is a considerable amount of violence in this novel, including several human sacrifice murders. There is also a considerable amount of New Age thinking here, along with a large amount of Christian theology. This isn't for the faint of heart, but it has something for everyone. It's well done, thrilling, thought-provoking, and very much worth reading.
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