In this exciting, character-driven police procedural by acclaimed author Gary Corbin, rookie policewoman Valorie Dawes has a mission: take serial child molesters like Richard Harkins off the streets of her small hometown of Clayton, CT--for good.

But Valorie's past includes childhood abuse trauma of her own, and her battle with this cunning, vicious criminal awakens memories and emotions she'd rather forget.

Battling sexism within the department and vilification in the media as a reckless incompetent, Val finds few allies in the pursuit of this elusive, cruel criminal, even as he continues to victimize women and girls in the community.

Can Valorie overcome the trauma she suffered as a child and stop Harkins from hurting others--or will her bottled-up anger lead her to take reckless risks that put the people she loves in greater danger?

Val Dawes and the WAVE Squad get called into action after Clayton’s family planning clinics receive ominous threats: Close the clinics, or else.

WAVE Squad member Valorie Dawes takes this threat personally, as her closest friend since childhood, Beth, discloses that she’s pregnant and is considering an abortion.

Can Val support her friend and keep her safe from the armed madman? Or will Beth’s stubborn recklessness thrust her into harm’s way?

A fanatical vigilante murders freed sex offenders, but the Clayton, CT police seem uninterested in finding the perp. Then when Val's closest friend on the force, a trans woman, suspiciously disappears, Val makes it her mission to find her.

When the bodies of freed sex offenders turn up with increasing regularity in western Connecticut, the Clayton Police Department responds with a disinterested yawn.

Second-year cop Val Dawes doesn't share the department's apparent indifference to the trend of vigilante justice. But her warnings fall on deaf ears, especially after her jealous rivals in the department get her suspended on a bogus assault charge.

Then her best friend in the department, a trans woman named Shelby, goes missing under suspicious circumstances.

Can Val find her friend before she, too, falls victim to a deranged vigilante?

A woman’s body is found with mysterious, symbolic clues—an undecipherable message carved into her skin—in the small, rugged east coast city of Clayton. Then a second body turns up, killed in a similar way, with new clues—but the same signature: The Engineer. The only other connection between them: both women belonged to the same body-shaming self-help group.

To solve the case, Val Dawes, the Clayton PD’s youngest-ever detective, goes undercover as a member of the support group. When she uncovers The Engineer’s strange obsession with eugenics, she becomes a target of his mission to “cleanse” the human race of its “undesirable” elements.

Can Val stop The Engineer before his killing spree reaches epidemic proportions?