PurpleSparky
Dr. Natalie Voss has spent her career trying to answer one question: Why do people kill?
As a psychologist at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, Natalie spends her days sitting across from murderers, serial killers, and those who claim they were too mentally ill to understand their crimes. She's learned how killers think, how they manipulate-and how easily some of them can pretend to be insane.
She knows because she's spent most of her life trying to understand one.
Her father.
When Natalie was thirteen, Julian Voss murdered their family and tried to kill her too. Her heart stopped-but Natalie survived. She hasn't spoken to him since.
Years later, when Natalie's best friend becomes the center of a murder investigation in Connecticut, Natalie refuses to remain on the sidelines. Detective Callum Reid wants nothing to do with the psychologist inserting herself into his case-especially when she's also one of the last people to speak to the victim.
But Natalie sees something in the killer that the police don't.
Natalie eventually finds herself working alongside Connecticut law enforcement, using her expertise to hunt murderers and would-be serial killers while continuing her work inside the psychiatric hospital.
And, much to Callum's annoyance, that means working alongside him.
As their reluctant partnership develops into something neither of them expected, Natalie's cases begin forcing her closer to the one mind she's spent years refusing to examine: Julian Voss.
Because understanding killers means understanding their why.
And the more Natalie uncovers about her father's past, the closer she gets to finally understanding his.
She just may not like the answer.
Some killers are born. Some are made. And some are in your blood.