Upon hearing more about the youth’s intelligence and sensitivity, however, she agrees to help him overcome his anger issues through hypnosis. When one of these friends, a parole officer named Colleen, calls Sarah asking for her help with Carlos, a troubled young ex-con, Sarah is reluctant. Her private practice flourishing, she’s comforted by a handful of close, supportive friends. Psychologist and hypnotist Sarah Hagan is enjoying her newfound success as the author of Psychosis and Past Life Regression, a study whose subject she has obsessed over since her painful divorce. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Can Sarah possibly love this vampire ghost” or will he destroy everything she treasures? And if that’s not enough to deal with, she is inexplicably drawn to Aris in a way she can’t begin to rationalize. Sarah genuinely cares about Carlos as a patient and wants to help him find his way to a better life, but he has brought chaos, confusion and danger into her neatly buttoned-up reality. The dreams both terrify and excite her as she struggles to make sense out of her world turned upside down.

They awake the emotion, passion and vulnerability that she thought she had buried for good. On top of grappling with a phantom vampire, Sarah begins to have the most disturbing (and sensual) dreams. His retelling of his lives, involvement and apparent demise in the court of Henry VIII keep her spellbound and hungry for more. Aris reveals that he is a vampire whose story begins in the time of Alexander the Great.

Is this some elaborate alter ego that Carlos has created or is something much stranger going on? In Sarah’s attempt to help Carlos deal with his issues of anger and a troubled past, she is captivated by the persona she uncovers through hypnosis Aris. As she regresses him with hypnotherapy, she discovers an unusual presence. It only takes one patient - a handsome younger man named Carlos who is on parole for car theft - to put her well-ordered life into a tailspin. From the outside, it looks like her life is almost perfect. She has a few good friends, lives in a beautiful condo in the heart of Chicago, and loves her work as a therapist. She’s currently dating a successful but neglectful attorney a relationship that is adequate, if not totally satisfying. She pulled herself together after a painful (and unexpected) divorce. Psychologist Sarah Hagan thought she had her life under control.

Aris Returns by Devin Morgan