Darkwater Cove

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The dark.

This is where monsters lurk.

The loss of light forever terrified Darcy Gellar. When she was a child, she begged her mother to read her one more story, and after she finished, another tale. Anything to delay the inevitable darkness that followed. No amount of checking for monsters in the closet and under the bed comforted little Darcy. After the lights went out and she was alone in the bedroom, every shadow became a clawed witch or a man with a knife.

Now the dark is an unexpected ally. It conceals Darcy even as it traps, working in her favor.

The FBI agent’s hands tremble as she swings the gun across the upstairs hallway. Four open doors bleed shadows across bare hardwood. One door leads to a bathroom. Darcy sees the sink and a drawn shower curtain. The others open to bedrooms.

He is here. Hidden in the shadows and following her with his eyes.

For over a year, Darcy and her partner, Eric Hensel, followed a trail of North Carolina murders. All girls in their teens and early twenties, women with their entire lives ahead of them, butchered by a serial killer the media refer to as the Full Moon Killer. Forensic evidence at the murder scenes proved scarce, and the few hair fibers and fingerprints the crime scene investigators discovered drew blanks. The Full Moon Killer was a ghost.

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