* * STANDALONE NOVEL * * A killer . . . that's what I am. It's what I do. It's what I live for. I'm no longer the Preston Hale everyone knew. I left that life and the people in it a long time ago the second I made my first kill. I wasn't going to give in, but when I heard the screams there was no going back. It triggered the pain, the need. I knew what I had to do, and I did it well. But I never expected for Emma Turner - the only link to my past - to come back into my life. She triggers a different emotion inside me, something I hadn't ever felt. It's not a want to kill . . . but a need to CLAIM.