Leslie Carson is haunted with the memories of the perverse Hatchet Killer that plagued her small town and the unexpected role she played in Arch Teller's subsequent imprisonment. Though years have gone by and hundreds of miles have deliberately been placed between Leslie and the town of Elk Point, a daunting retrial ending in Teller's release renders her world upended. With a dreaded but obligated return to Elk Point to bury her father and console her grief-stricken mother, Leslie is forced to confront her past as well as a dark, looming promise; a promise from her former childhood friend and suspected Hatchet Killer to ultimately ruin Leslie in every way he knows how, plunging her and the town of Elk Point into a sinister and suspenseful game of survival.

The macabre unraveling of a burdened therapist and underhanded butcher in the filthily overrun and morally bankrupt milieu of New York City.

It has been 12 years since the Lycan emerged from the shadows and conquered the world. Today, North America is divided into two dozen Territories overseen by the Centrality, and the humans within those Territories live in poverty and fear. Despite a difficult upbringing in the poorest Burrow in one of the harshest Territories, Noa Bordeaux has worked hard and secured a position at one of the few operating universities left in North America in hopes that she'll be able to one day help rebuild her home. Her plans are completely derailed, however, when she learns that her worst fears have come true. She's mated to a monster. Desperate to avoid a fate she deems to be worse than death, she runs with the help of her childhood best friend and the human Resistance. But fate won't let her escape that easily...