Winner - 2019 Readers' Favorite - Non-fiction True Crime

On a sweltering summer night, an outcast, brutally tortured, was left to die in a field behind a Houston, Texas graveyard. Later, police discover another victim, but are the two related?

Written in cinematic narrative, Out Here in the Darkness draws its reader back to 1985 and the dawn of Satanic Panic. Within the first few pages, you'll find yourself an unwilling sixth member of a group of heavy metal fans as they sink into drug-fueled fantasies of bloodshed. You will feel the manipulation of one as he drives his teenage friends into an insatiable eagerness to watch someone die.

This true crime story carries the reader into inescapable darkness through a three-decade journey behind the walls of a Texas prison with a man seeking to understand how he became a murderer and if his life now has any purpose.

Out Here in the Darkness is a fast-paced eruption of emotions that lingers, compelling the reader to decide what justice means.