Detective Damien Green has faced monsters before, but his newest case is unlike anything he's ever seen.
A killer dubbed The Bleeder is targeting women, restraining them and leaving their bodies drained of blood. The murders are methodical, ritualistic and horrifyingly precise. Damien is convinced the killer's gruesome methods hold the key to identifying him.
Then another body turns up.
It looks like The Bleeder's work-but something isn't right.
Someone is copying the murders.
Now Damien isn't hunting one serial killer. He's hunting two. And while the copycat tries to perfect another man's deadly ritual, The Bleeder discovers the imitation and decides there's only one appropriate response:
Find the impostor himself.
Meanwhile, Kelli Green is beginning a new career as a private investigator. Her first case is easy enough, but when the mother of a missing eleven-year-old girl asks for her help, Kelli can't say no. The investigation awakens painful memories of her own daughter's murder and sends her down an increasingly dangerous path in search of a child everyone else has failed to find.
Two killers. Two investigations. And for Damien and Kelli Green, the line between solving a case and becoming consumed by one has never been thinner.