Aseries of grisly murders leaves the city paralyzed with fear. Eachvictim is marked with a perfectly polished silver dollar, the datescounting down like a cryptic puzzle. The police are at a loss, untilKira, a half-psychic whose unstable gift can slam her into violentseizures, is called to the case. Her visions are not glimpses—theyare full-body, full-mind relays of trauma, blurring the line betweenherself, the victims, and the killer. But the killer is no ordinaryhuman: a malevolent entity, Aeren, controls him from the shadows,feeding on fear and refining its host. As Kira dives deeper into themind of the killer, she experiences both the victims’ agony and thekiller’s cold, clinical satisfaction. Each psychic encounter leavesher body broken and her mind fraying, while the demon’s whispersoffer a seductive promise: total control of her power if shesurrenders. With time running out, Kira must confront theunimaginable, unraveling the threads of blood that connect her to thekiller. In a battle of mind, body, and spirit, she discovers that theprice of stopping the terror may leave her forever scarred, haunted,and dangerously changed.
