The Bait and the Blade

In the rain-slicked streets of Ashford, a city haunted by a serial killer known as The Silhouette, disgraced detective Liam Shaw volunteers for a desperate reverse sting. Tasked with posing as the killer’s perfect victim, he adopts the identity of a suicidal jazz musician to walk the blade’s edge alone. But when the huntress Eva emerges from the shadows, her damaged soul mirrors his own, and the boundaries between hunter and prey dissolve into forbidden obsession. As Shaw falls deeper into a love born of lies and shared trauma, he discovers that the most lethal truth was never the murder weapon—it was the deception of the heart. Every confession cuts deeper than steel, proving that sometimes the truth wounds more fatally than any killer ever could.