Holly Benedict

Chris and Carla Bennett had the perfect life until the day their nine-year-old daughter Kimberly was abducted in broad daylight. Days turn into weeks and weeks into months. All attempts to find her come up empty, leaving the entire community baffled.

John Dale has everything. Money, notoriety, the biggest house in town. But what he really wants is a good, old-fashioned Christmas. With no family in town, John turns to the local "Rent-All" store and owner Anne Weston. Anne's store is struggling, and in an attempt to save the shop, she takes on this unusual order from this unusual man. She goes about trying to fill the order, but ends up filling a need much greater.

Adrian is a detective that is overwhelmed with his fear of the dark. But, he's not the only one. He discovers that other people in his neighborhood have been experiencing the same fear. . . and people are coming up missing. His obsession with this fear leads him to an anthropologist, Dr. Branson. Dr. Branson claims this innate fear is the result of thousands of years of terror from a creature that exists only in the dark--a DARKLING. Adrian's girlfriend, Helen, isn't convinced and hooks him and some of their friends up with a psychiatrist, Dr. Kailee Jenkins, who takes them to a remote cabin to cure them of their "phobia". A story of fear and the effects that it has on its victims and their loved ones.