Girl, Alone

Ella Dark is 29 and an FBI agent with one ambition: a place in the Behavioral Crimes Unit. She has spent years privately building an encyclopedic knowledge of serial killers, and that hidden obsession is what gets her noticed and invited into the unit.

The invitation puts her in front of a real murder, a real killer and a deadline that is running down. Everything she has memorized comes from case files and study, and none of it prepares her for a live hunt.

Ella comes to see that facts alone will not stop this killer. She has to trust her instinct and let herself think the way the murderer thinks, which means going into the darkest parts of a killer's mind.

The risks are plain. A wrong call ends her career, and it costs the next victim their life. The book is a crime thriller that follows a young agent proving herself under pressure, and it turns on whether her unusual talent is the thing that saves someone or the thing that ruins her.