*Synopsis** It’s been three months since Megan Chase, psychologist, and Radio talk show host named Dr. Demon Slayer, made the stunning discovery that the world is filled with demons, and once more the situation is too hot to handle. Ironically, Megan is the only person in the world without a little personal demon sitting on her shoulder, and has since become the leader of a demon “family” after defeating the Accuser's attempt to retake her body. Now, some unknown arcane power is offing her demons in a particularly unpleasant fashion. Then, a turn of events happens, and the truth about Megan’s past comes to light; one that will shatter her concept of who her father really was.

Caught between personal problems and personal demons, Megan is having one hell of a hard time. Will the help of her cockney guard demons and her witch friend Tera be enough so that Megan can finally resolve the past, survive the present, and face the future?

**Review** I'm still not convinced that Megan is a good character. For a person who is supposed to be a psychologist, she has more personal problems than any 50 of her clients combined. She, should be be the one seeking help! She is flighty, whimpy, and a crybaby most of the time. She also leaves her troubles for others to handle, which causes her own family of demons to look to the BIG BAD, in order to help feed them and take care of them. Does she change in this book? Not until the very ending of this book in which she tries to convince herself that maybe becoming a full time demon will save her family of personal demons, as a week Meegra, is a worthless one. The problem is, Megan allowed the demons to make the decisions for her, instead of the other way around. Thanfully, she ends up quiting her job that was making her sad, and mad at the same time. Of course, she feeds off one of her clients sisters grief before she does.

Megan also has to deal with other issues when her father dies, and she is expected to show up for the funeral and the reading of the will, which shocks the socks of Megan, and angers her at the same time. Naturally, her mother is a queen beyotch, and her brother treats her like pond scum. Nice family! What happens upon arrival in Grant Falls, was pretty much standard plotline when a person who is condemned for murdering an innocent man, comes back home to a world better off without her.

The only thing that really happens is, she finds out that her father was not the man she thought he was, and in fact, was working with the very demons who put the Accuser into Megan for the perhaps of killing her off. Thankfully, she has Greyson Dante to fall back onto, otherwise, she would be a drooling nut case confined to the nearest mental hospital.

However, even with Greyson in her corner, she continues to lie to him, and hide the fact that her demon is growing stronger and draining her powers in order to feed it's bloodlust. Greyson, of course, watches this happen, and says nothing, including when her eyes turn a different shade, and she thinks her steak is over-cooked. The final question she needs to ask her self is this: Will I go through with the Haikkan Kra Ritual that will end up destroying the rest of her humanity, while making her a demon full time? If that happens, she will be nothing more than a parasite who feeds off people's emotions, and quite possibilty, blood like Greyson and his demons. I guess that's a good description of what a demon really is.

The Villian(s) of the story: Ktana Leyak aka Queen Demon. Leyak is the one who is off killing demons, and even witches in order to gather more power. This includes capturing Megan's entire family of personal demons.

David Chase, for selling his own daughter to the demons in order to become a better accountant and own a piece of a valuable property. Add in the former Templetton Black, and Orion Maldon, and you have a trifecta of evil incarnate and those most responsible for the demon inside of Megan. Luckily for the readers, all three men are now dead.

Interesting character addition: Nick the incubus who raises Megans blood pressure and her sexual desires. He also comes in handy in the battle to save Megan's demons, while questioning why she hasn't already gone through the demon ritual.

Not enough storyline: Asterope Green (Tera) the witch, and Brian the reporter, and psychic who is now dating a police offider. They do show up yes. They do play individual parts, yes. ( )

Dr. Megan Chase is back, and this time, giving readers very little breathing space, Meg is trying to survive fireball flinging car chases with witches and find out who is, literally, exploding her demons. In the mean time she has to try to come to terms with her own parasitic nature, trying to balance her job as a therapist helping people overcome their trauma, and her soul-calling as the leader of the personal demons, who feed off the pain and emotional hurt of humans.
If that wasn't bad enough Meg, on the precipice between human and demon, between accepting her own darkness and trying to deny it by helping others deny theirs, gets pulled back into the chaos of the family she walked away from and learns startling, disturbing truths about what made her become the woman she is.
I have to start this one with a purely personal response—I have never read a sex scene that made me cry before this book.
The raw emotional pain of Meg, raised in one of the worse imaginable environments, and struggling to come to terms with that as an adult, even if she tries to hide her coping behind her role as a therapist, is overwhelming. Meg is absolutely compelling as she tries to convince herself that she is a good person, despite dating a demon, being part demon, not to mention a demon queen, and the strange cravings for very inhuman things that begin to overcome her. Her own personal darkness, a textbook example of the damage childhood abuse does to an ordinary person, is delicately, but firmly tied into her struggle with the nature of the demons tied to her.
The level of emotion is incredibly high in this book. It's hard to stomach, hard to watch and impossible not to experience along with Meg.
But despite the sheer desolation there's a victorious element, because Megan might not be what her family wants, or what her partners in the practice want, or even what her demon followers want, but what she is under the damage is a core of molten steel trying to survive the inferno of emotions and rise in a world where she can be loved, respected and valued.
Demon Inside isn't a book for everyone, but for those who connect with Megan because of similar pasts and emotions, it could be the sort of book that unexpectedly changes you and therefore is very highly recommended. ( )