The Shock of Night #2 by Patrick W. Carr (The Darkwater Saga, New, 2015, Pbk, 460 pages, Bethany House)

New with very slight shelf wear on the cover and page discoloration. ISBN 9780764213465.

When one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded on the streets of Bunard, Willet Dura is called to investigate. Yet the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers. As Willet begins to question the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue. Then he dies without another word.

Willet returns to the city, no closer to answers than before, but his senses are skewed. People he touches appear to have a subtle shift, a twist seen at the edge of his vision, and it's as though he can see their deepest thoughts. In a world divided between haves and have-nots, gifted and common, Willet soon learns he's been passed the rarest gift of all: a gift that's not supposed to exist. Bethany House Publishers (2015) 460 pages