The Midnight Butterfly
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There is beauty in madness, and madness in beauty.
When a series of murders leaves bodies arranged like tragic art, one man is pulled back into a world he thought he'd left behind. Ethan Hargrave doesn't just investigate killers-he understands them. But the deeper he dives, the thinner the line becomes between solving the case... and becoming part of it.
Love and hate. Obsession and control. Creation and destruction.
In the end, which will he choose?
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