Rhyme and Punishment

Every warning starts with a rhyme.

When a bizarre Emergency Alert hijacks television screens across the country, most people laugh it off as a prank.

Detective Ted Cole is one of them.

Then a man is murdered on a train.

A few days later, another cryptic rhyme appears.

Then another body.

Then another.

As the death toll rises, Ted discovers a terrifying pattern: each warning references a classic children's book, and each victim is a powerful figure hiding a dark secret.

Judges.

Politicians.

Police officers.

Corporate executives.

To some, the killer is a monster.

To others, he's delivering the justice the system never would.

While the city becomes obsessed with decoding the broadcasts, Ted races to uncover the identity of the masked vigilante known only as **The Warning Man** before another rhyme becomes another murder.

But the deeper Ted digs, the more disturbing the truth becomes.

The victims are guilty.

The warnings are real.

And the line between justice and revenge is growing thinner with every chapter.

Because every story has a moral.

And this one is written in blood.

*For fans of The Batman, Death Note, Saw, Se7en, and Zodiac.*