The Blackest Crimson

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He’s known as the Storyteller—and all his tales end in merciless death.

Detective Bobbie Gentry’s hunt for a heinous serial killer is interrupted when the sadistic Storyteller finds her first. Captured on Christmas Eve and held in a cabin deep in the woods, she must survive for the sake of her family. Bobbie cannot leave her little boy orphaned and alone—and she craves the chance to avenge her husband’s murder. But not one of the Storyteller’s fourteen victims escaped his torturous game alive, and he’s obsessed with breaking Bobbie. From tattooing the story of her torture onto her back to violating her in every imaginable way, he’s determined to make her victim number fifteen.

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Burl Ives’s deep baritone filled the room. Jamie was mesmerized by the classic animation. But it was the silence in the kitchen that held Bobbie in an ever-tightening grip. The fine hair on the back of her neck stood on end while her pulse bumped into a faster rhythm. She eased away from Jamie and moved around the sofa. “James?”

Another clang echoed from the kitchen.

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