Bereft

<p>She is twenty-nine when the FBI comes for her but Catherine Themis was only seventeen grieving and naive and angry the first time she wiped someone else's blood from her fingers and felt the snake rise in her chest. She was seventeen when she stepped into the dark and never looked back. By day Catherine Themis is an unassuming civilian administrator for the Dedwich Police Department but by night she is a notorious vigilante known as The Hangman. Struggling with her violent urges and the psychological cost of her actions Catherine becomes the target of an obsessive serial killer and a relentless FBI agent and as the hunt for the Hangman intensifies Catherine must decide which life she wishes to live and what she values more: vengeance or her fading humanity? Catherine questions the efficacy of her own convictions as the FBI closes in and a vindictive murderer puts her family love and identity in jeopardy. With everything on the line and time running out who will Catherine Themis become?</p>