When Darkness Falls

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her body seems to hover above the forest floor. Arms and legs torn away from the trunk. A bloody stump mounted upright on a skewer.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Not just a corpse. A warning.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The most recent body was discovered in the woods just beyond a logging cabin. Dismembered. Put on display. Ghostly pale skin stark against the forest's green.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Before that two campers were found a few miles off. Cut apart. Impaled. Left in public places where they'd surely be found.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The grisly crimes summon </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>FBI profiler Violet Darger</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to a tiny island off the Alaskan coast -- 2500 square miles of forested land populated by just 6000 souls.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Here in the primordial wilderness she'll face off with a shadowy killer unlike anything she's seen. Raging. Brutal. Elusive.</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He waits. Seethes. In the woods. In the dark. Always watching. He waits.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Darger digs into the history of torso killers to try to understand the psychology behind the crimes. Finds a legacy of savagery dating back over a hundred years.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aggression beyond comprehension. A recurring phenomenon of human behavior that chills her.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Human anatomy used to mark out territory. Corpses made totems to warn off others. It happens over and over again.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Who could carry out such brutality? And why?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Understanding the interior world the motivations of this type of killer will be the key to solving the case.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The dark woods hold his secrets tightly. The terrain itself shielding him giving him an edge over those in law enforcement seeking him.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When a storm moves in Darger finds herself in peril deep in his territory. Vulnerable. Exposed. Walking right into his trap.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He waits.</strong></p>