The Unasked Question

Some murders are puzzles. Others are warnings. This one is both.

Kade Renner, a 24-year-old forensic consultant with a classified past, thought he'd seen everything-until a woman is found dead in a crumbling church, her body arranged like a work of art and marked with a spiral carved into her skin.

The same spiral that haunted Kade during his time in a secret government program designed to investigate "perceptual anomalies"-distortions in memory, time, and even reality itself.

When more bodies begin to appear, and the spiral resurfaces in places it shouldn't, Kade is drawn into a deeper mystery that warps his sense of what's real and who he can trust. Especially Detective Elias Mercer, a seasoned investigator who seems to know more about these murders-and Kade-than he's letting on.

As the lines between logic and nightmare blur, Kade must confront not just the killer, but the question he's avoided his entire life:

Why does the detective always arrive before the blood is dry?

Because some answers come too late.

And some questions were never meant to be asked.

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