The Hollow Hour

Three Vantry shifters are dead in one month, each with the same silver-etched mark on the throat — the same mark carved into Sera Quill's palm fifteen years ago at her rejection ceremony. Sera is a rogue wolf and a private investigator on a rain-soaked coast, and the Vantry pack has hired her precisely because she is an outsider no one inside can kill. She takes the case for money and for the chance to close a door she has kept open too long. The victims were all rejected wolves. So was she. The killer is the man whose job was to brand them, and he has been hunting survivors for fifteen years. On the ritual ground at the hollow hour, Sera will face him with evidence instead of teeth — because the file she is building will not just catch a murderer, it will end the ritual that made him. The Vantry pack will offer her a place. She will close the file and drive home.