A Dark Love Story: Are you prepared to enter the Darkness? THE SPLINTERED TABLE is a quick-read novella focused on an unwitting tourist's, a wayward father's, entry into ORCHID's dark world of human trafficking -- a story of the power of Innocence fighting against the principalities of the Evil One. Based on actual overheard conversations shared by a former intelligence officer, intertwined in a salacious plot of fast-moving intrigue and supernatural intervention, the conflict intensifies as two young daughters yearn for their Daddy's return from another overseas business trip to Greece; a self-fulfilling adventure where he has fallen into the clutches of his own secret life at an iconic taverna, a famed tourist attraction, on the island of Crete. Unbeknownst to their Daddy, he has entered into the Dark Realm's supernatural struggle swirling around the daily events controlling the 'Ones' who have sat down at the same cursed table. Those who do find themselves seated in the splintered wooden chairs beckoning from the taverna's renowned corner made of glass, and survive, find their lives changed forever. Indeed, their Daddy will return, but as a different husband their Mommy once knew and loved. Will the family survive? Are you ready to enter the Dark Realm? Are you able to fight the Darkness?