It has been two years since the arrest of Chelsey Bargains, the infamous New York City serial killer whose calculated murders shocked the nation. The headlines faded. The trials ended. The world moved on.
But in 2028, as artificial intelligence tightens its grip on global infrastructure and surveillance replaces privacy, a new horror emerges overseas.
In Britain, a killer known only as the Lumberjack Killer begins carving a path through the city streets, leaving behind scenes reminiscent of Jack the Ripper, brutal, theatrical, and designed to send a message. With mounting pressure from the public and the government, a British detective finds himself out of options.
So he turns to the one mind who understands monsters better than anyone.
Chelsey Bargains.
Imprisoned but far from powerless, Chelsey is pulled back into the game she once mastered. As she assists in profiling the new killer, she finds herself confronting ghosts of her past, old enemies who never truly disappeared and new players operating in the shadows.
Meanwhile, across the ocean, Ivan Lindal quietly builds something far more dangerous. From beneath the surface of organized crime, he orchestrates high-level robberies and calculated terrorist attacks, reshaping the criminal underworld into his own empire. His moves are deliberate. His patience is deadly.
The world is destabilizing. Technology is evolving faster than law enforcement can keep up. Power is shifting.
And when chaos begins to converge on both sides of the Atlantic, one truth becomes clear:
No one is safe.
And the only person who might be capable of stopping what's coming...is the woman who once started it all.
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