Black Heart

<p>Michael Hunter has spent his entire life outrunning the shadows of his past. As a boy he escaped a state-run programme buried deep in Ireland's forgotten institutions - a place designed not to heal but to create something far more dangerous. Now an adult he has turned his trauma into a weapon hunting the predators society refuses to see.</p><p>When a new generation subject - seventeen-year-old Evan Mallory - escapes from a supposedly legitimate youth rehabilitation centre Michael is drawn back into a web he thought he'd burned down years ago. Evan is everything Michael once was: terrified conditioned and on the brink of becoming the very thing the programme intended him to be.</p><p></p><p>Detective Laura Mills already tracking the mysterious vigilante cutting through Dublin's underworld soon finds herself caught between duty and instinct as Michael Evan and the truth converge. But the programme isn't dead - it has evolved. Its architect Director Harold Collins is rebuilding it in secret and Evan is his newest project.</p><p>What follows is a relentless chase across the Dublin Mountains abandoned schools rain-soaked forests and the hidden institutions scattered through Ireland's darker history. As fire betrayal and buried secrets rise to the surface Michael must decide whether he is a protector... or a weapon forged for a purpose he never chose.</p><p></p><p><strong>BLACK HEART</strong> is a gripping psychological crime thriller about trauma survival and the thin line between justice and vengeance - where monsters aren't born but made.</p>