The bent case files

Forensic psychologist Elara Vance has spent years burying the fragments of her childhood
a blood-splattered legacy, a father imprisoned for murder,
and the faint memory of a woman's voice whispering in the dark.
She's built a quiet life. A safe one.
Until a string of killings drags her straight back into the nightmare she thought she'd escaped.
The victims all share a chilling connection:
they were present the night Elara was born.
Detective Kade Mercer insists it's a coincidence.
Elara knows better.
Every body is positioned with purpose. Every message is written for her. Every clue is a reminder of something she was never supposed to remember.
As the investigation tightens, Elara finds herself trapped between a detective who's watching her too closely...
and a killer who knows her better than anyone alive.
The deeper she digs, the more one truth claws its way to the surface:
These murders didn't begin with the first body.
They began with her.
And the mastermind isn't a stranger.
Then who's it?