In the dead of a brutal Chicago winter, a girl?s body is found beneath a frozen lake?though she vanished weeks ago and the ice has been solid for months. Detective Sam Porter suspects a new killer is at work, even as the media blames the infamous Anson Bishop. Haunted by past cases and cryptic clues from Bishop himself, Porter sets off to uncover the truth?beginning with Bishop?s mother. Dark, chilling, and relentlessly suspenseful, this twisted thriller by J.D. Barker dives into the origins of evil and asks: how do you stop a killer shaped from birth to destroy?