The Book Killer: an African American Psychological Thriller Romance

The perfect murder is only a footnote away.Professor Latoya Wakefield, a brilliant criminologist, lives for the classics. The prime suspect in a recent string of meticulously staged murders is Harold Junior: her charismatic, impossibly brilliant student. He is magnetic, seductive, and terrifyingly aware of the darkness that simmers beneath Latoya’s own academic facade. Soon, Latoya is drawn into a forbidden, feverish intellectual and sexual obsession with the man the police are calling The Book Killer.But FBI Agent Naomi Wilde knows better. A meticulous analyst haunted by her own forbidden desires, Naomi suspects Harold is not just a killer, but an author—staging murders based on literary blueprints, using the human soul as his canvas. As she races to capture him, Naomi finds herself fighting a terrifying attraction to the very man she hunts.When the cold, calculating heiress Melinda Finch arrives, demanding vengeance for her father, the lines between justice and obsession dissolve entirely. Latoya and Naomi are forced into a deadly, intimate confrontation with Harold, who offers them a choice: betray the world and live forever as his Queens, or face the final, cataclysmic chapter he has already written for them.In this symphonic finale of love, lust, and betrayal, two shattered women must confront the seductive genius of a killer who believes that the greatest literature is only complete when it bleeds.Who will survive the final stanza? And what is the price of perfect, devastating closure?