**A crazed serial killer. A lycanthrope detective. A case she cannot ignore.** Ellie Lawrence’s world has fallen apart. She’s lost the detective job she adores, the man she loves and the mentor she looked up to. In addition, she has walked away from the friends who’ve been her life for the last few years.With nowhere else to go, she returns to the cottage she abandoned to try to piece together a future. Part of her return involves reconnecting with Victoria Stephens—her oldest friend and fellow inmate of Sackville School for Behavioural Difficulties.But the news that a deranged serial killer is on the loose and her incompetent, onetime nemesis is leading the case draws Ellie back into her former life. With the help of local crime reporter Jayson Christian, Ellie gets lost in a twisted world where even her supernatural senses lead her astray. **As time is running out, can Ellie face the hard truth and stop The Headhunter?** If you enjoyed **Marie Anne Cope’s** **BONDS** series, follow Ellie as she embarks on her first solo adventure.