"Jackson's debut novel blends elements of suspense and legal drama to create an action-packed, fast-paced crime thriller."--Publishers Weekly

What Lurks Inside Is about to Crawl Out...

Donovan Montgomery is Chicago's top forensic psychiatrist, an expert on behavioral deviance whose belief in law and order and convincing testimony has locked up the city's worst criminals.

With her latest case, the stakes have never been higher. Violence and racial tensions are boiling over in the Windy City. A neo-Nazi is running for congress, while a white supremacist is being tried for a triple murder. It will be Donovan's job to derail the candidate and convict the killer. But things are about to go horribly wrong with the city, the campaign, the trial, and with Donovan herself.

What nobody could have foreseen is that Donovan harbors a terrifying secret that has long been suppressed, buried so deep inside her even she's not aware of it. But with a mind of its own, this thing has been clawing its way out. Unleashed, it is a frightening side of Donovan she never knew existed.

Her life quickly takes a dizzying twist; her pursuit of truth spins into a personal vendetta. Donovan plunges into the city's underworld, an asylum of corruption, conspiracies, and madness-just the kind of chaos for this dangerously changed-Donovan to make right with her newfound brand of justice.

Chicago and Donovan will never be the same again.

"Jackson's debut novel blends elements of suspense and legal drama to create an action-packed, fast-paced crime thriller.Readers will be guessing until the end. Fans of true crime and courtroom legal dramas will delight in this tale of vigilante justice. Great for fans of: Walter Mosley, Kathy Reichs's Temperance Brennan series."-Publishers Weekly

"A gripping tale with more than one mystery at its core."-Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, New York Times best-selling author

"A malevolent, intricate tale of murder and madness."-David Niall Wilson, USA Today best-selling author

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