Prologue
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A serial killer is on the loose, one willing to strike across the country. A family killer. The killer kills the husbands but r***s and tortures the mothers and daughters before killing them. There is always a mother and a daughter; it’s the killer’s MO. DI Richard Platt and his team are determined to find the killer before another family is brutally murdered. They have suspects, but no solid evidence. Something stands in their way, possibly someone within their own team.
In Larksford House clinic, Melanie Foster was locked away to keep a secret, but her escape plan is set. For ten years, she has hidden behind a mask even she doesn’t yet know the meaning of. All the while she had been learning and honing her skills, exercising in her room, picking locks, and secretly trawling the internet for the information she needs. Now she’s ready to venture out into a world she knows less about than she realises, to find and confront the person responsible for her incarceration. To meet the family who threw her away, she needs to know why they did that.
The head of Larksford House, Professor Albert Hicks Junior, watches as his plans to use Melanie as a test subject fall apart, as people he trusted within the clinic plot against him.
The new nurse, Toby Washington, an American with his eye on taking over Larksford, has befriended Melanie, raising a problem for Hicks. Each knows he must strike the other, but who will gain first mover advantage?
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