A Short Synopsis of "The Harrowing of Scooter Emerson"

As I approach the hard beginnings of my new novel, The Harrowing of Scooter Emerson I am beset with apprehension. This will be unlike any book I have ever written. It is a scary scenario to say the least. The reason I am having so much trouble even beginning it is because of its capability of wrenching my heart aside and drop kicking it into the pain and anguish of self criticism. Why in the world would I say something as unorthodox as that is probably running through the thoughts of anyone reading this. I will attempt to explain.

The Harrowing of Scooter Emerson is about a man about to die. He isn't just going to die; Scooter will be executed by the state for his dreadful crimes against it. Scooter was a serial killer; rather Scooter is a serial killer, because he dreams of being free to continue with his chosen profession. As the minutes tick toward midnight on his last day on earth there come, for him, a miracle, for the citizens of the state is a catastrophic happening. Scooter's lawyers have, just minutes before execution made his a free man. Free, not just a reprieve, he will be set free because of the prosecutors' tampering with, and concealing evidence.

Scooter is ready. He has sat on death row for ten years dreaming of this day. He has plans to go on a killing spree this nation has never seen before. As he lay in the hotel room one of his lawyer has rented for him he things of her in the next room, for the lawyer is a woman, and a beautiful one. Just what he needs to kick off the plague he intends to impose on an unsuspecting nation. As he walks into her room, sent there by blood-lust, there comes a conversation with his intended victim that confuses Scooter and makes him pause just long enough for the lawyer, her name is Ellen Haak, to confound him to the point that it is she who takes over as the dominant one in that room, it is she who will take Scooter and guide him through a hell he has never realized was possible and still go on living. Ellen goads him, softly encourages him and outright dominates him fro time to time as she not so gently guides him to where she wants him; face to face with his own immortal soul.