When Nadine Wells is found dead on her forty-sixth birthday, Detective Chief Inspector Ellie Monroe is called to a scene that feels wrong from the start. No signs of struggle. No forced entry.
As Ellie digs deeper into cold cases, a disturbing pattern begins to emerge. Similar deaths. The same date. And a history that leads to a closed children's home, where something darker was allowed to take root.
Ellie must untangle past failures, buried truths, and her own personal demons before history repeats.
Because someone has already decided who comes next.