The Butcher's Blade (book 2)

This is Book two of the Gallery of Killers series.

She cleans up the evidence. They create the crime.

​Elara Vance is a ghost. As a high-end biohazard cleanup technician, her job is to erase the worst moments of people's lives-scrubbing blood from marble and bleaching away the stains of violence until the world looks perfect again. She doesn't ask questions, and she never leaves a trace.

​But when she's summoned to a pristine estate by Alistair Thorne, she realizes she hasn't been hired to clean a past mistake. She's been recruited to join a masterpiece.
​Thorne is a billionaire CEO with the soul of a predator and a passion for "restructuring" more than just companies. He is the Architect, and he has a vision for the city-one written in shadow and blood. And he isn't alone.

​To survive the Architect's world, Elara must navigate four lethal obsessions:

​The Architect (Thorne): The brilliant, cold mastermind who sees Elara as the final piece of his structural design.

​The Butcher (Silas Vane): A stoic chef who handles a cleaver with terrifying grace and looks at Elara with a hunger that has nothing to do with food.

​The Siren (Jude Cross): The golden-boy influencer who uses his fame as a mask for his sadistic cravings.

​The Shadow (Nico Rossi): The tech-stalker who has been living in Elara's digital periphery, watching her every move long before they ever met.

​In a world where the monsters are beautiful and the crimes are art, Elara's skills are the perfect asset. They don't want to kill her-they want to keep her. But as the lines between cleaner and accomplice blur, Elara has to decide: will she scrub away their sins, or will she help them paint the town red?

​"Some people build empires. We build nightmares. And every nightmare needs a witness to keep it clean."