Echoes in Red
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Last published Mon, Sep 22, 2025
In a city drowning beneath rain and regret, Detective Peterson chases a killer who seems to know her deepest sins. By day, she fights to hold her job and sanity together. By night, she loses herself in forbidden desire-haunted by the face of the murderer every time passion takes her. As crime scenes bleed into her diary pages, and echoes of guilt blur into whispers of obsession, Peterson is forced to ask: is she hunting a killer, or is she already tangled in his embrace?
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