WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE When Lindsey Fetter opened her eyes, the man that killed her husband was standing at the end of her bed. When Charlie Dunn pocketed his cell phone, he could only stare at the empty ice on Lake Michigan. The man that killed his wife and son had been released. When Ellen Dumont visited her parent's gravesite alone, it never occurred to her that would be her last moment on earth. 450 murders is a slow year for Chicago Homicide Detective Aaron Wolfe, but he carries them with him. Long ago he had to learn how to bury the pain and angst so he could navigate the carnage and hunt the killers. But years of a rising crimson tide and failing legal system were more than he could bear. There were too many innocent victims, and too many killers escaping through the legal cracks. On the eve of his resignation, Wolfe saw the man convicted on the Dunn murders would be released—another legal maneuver. When Wolfe took on the Fetter...

The Bluff City Butcher was once just an urban legend. Now a real monster has stepped out of the fog of a century-old mystery and thrown a midsouth community into unbridled terror. When world renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Elliott Sumner gets the call from the Butcher, he knows he's not dealing with just any serial killer. Not only is the BCB a genius and psychopath, he is the genetic recipient of a legendary mutation some would kill for. Elliott's battle with his own inner demons could get in the way of stopping the very real monster. But will ending the reign of terror of the Bluff City Butcher solve the century-old mystery? Or will it put an end to the single greatest evolutionary leap for mankind?

Classified paranormal research and an inconceivable bid for global dominance become an electrifying struggle between world powers and one man. In 1970, the U.S. Government launched research into psychic-weaponry. By 1995, the program is presumed abandoned and declassified. Decades later, when bizarre brain lesions are the only link in a string of murders, covert government operatives arrive on the scene. Did they come to contain a problem or to keep a top secret program on track? Homicide Detective Tony Wilcox knows he must find Hunter Keller, the only eyewitness to the unsolved murders, before the covert operatives get to him. When Wilcox and Memphis Medical Examiner, Dr. Victoria Petty, uncover the shocking deceptions, they make it their mission to stop the monstrous threat. Can Wilcox and Petty find Hunter Keller in time? Does Keller hold the secret to stop the killing, or will a new weapon of mass destruction be unleashed on the world?