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A recap for the previous two RED books (WARNING, contains spoilers! If you haven’t read these, both are included in Blood RED, also from SST Publications).

RED

Rachael Daniels is a lowly care worker, spending her days helping elderly clients in their homes—including Tilly Brindle, who is almost like family. Depressed because she’s split up with her boyfriend, Rachael’s best friend Steph takes her out on the town. But she’s forgotten to give Tilly her medication, so ends up doing a mercy dash through the city at night to get it to her. Unfortunately a wolf-creature called Finch—who can change his appearance, but can be also be seen in reflective surfaces—is hunting the young woman and gets to Tilly first, taking her place to fool Rachael. In the resultant fight, it appears as if Rachael has killed the beast in the local park. However at the end, as Steph visits Rachael to see how she is—and it’s revealed Tilly survived the ordeal—she, and we, discover the wolf actually won and ate Rachael, taking her form. Now Steph looks set to be its next victim ...

Blood RED

In the aftermath of the events in RED, a team of trackers has shown up to kill the wolf—led by (Tom) Hunter, who wields a silver axe. At the same time a confused Rachael is wandering the streets, then returns home to find her mother has shown up. The girl breaks down, telling her she’s had a nightmare about being eaten. During the course of his investigations, Hunter meets Rachael and there’s an immediate attraction. However, wolf attacks keep happening—which might be her losing control of this new body she seems to have taken control of. As his team gets picked off one by one and more blood is spilt, including Rachael’s mother, Hunter goes on the run with Rachael to keep her safe—still unaware of the truth about what she is. At a motel out of town, they sleep together, but as the police show up—including a rookie cop, Peel—it becomes clear another, female, wolf has been committing the murders. Flashing back in her mind to when Finch became The First Wolf, thousands of years ago in a cave, Rachael defeats him and finally takes full control of his body. In the confusion, Peel kills the distracted female wolf, though not before Hunter also loses his life. The finale shows that Tilly and Steph both survived and are infected with the wolf ‘virus’. Not only that, Rachael is giving birth to the child she and Hunter conceived at the motel.

And now, the epic story concludes in Deep RED ...