In Wall Road Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was secure…but there’s a fresh killer in town.

When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can barely anticipate the nightmare that’s going to envelop her. The package is resolved to her father—a specialist in Viking tradition—and inside is a ninth-century sword, a chilling thank-you notice, and photos of two lifeless bodies in a tableau evoking a Nordic about Midnight Obsession funeral. The gruesome pictures match a recently available crime scene. But before the police can check out the killer’s connection to Louisa’s father, Ward Hancock vanishes.

Sports bar owner Conor Sullivan desires nothing more than to spend his life with Louisa. Devoted and protective, he refuses to leave her aspect after her father’s disappearance. Whenever a stressed young boxer he’s been coaching is suspected of the murders, Conor can be pulled in also deeper. Desperate, Louisa and Conor consider it upon themselves to discover her dad, but shortly another ritualistic slaying helps it be apparent there’s a Viking-obsessed serial killer on the loose. And he has a brand-new focus on: Louisa.