Karra Gussi built her true-crime podcast on one rule: the monster is always a man.
Three women have vanished from Darkhollow in eighteen months — all near the full moon, all near the Skygrove treeline. The official story is a cougar. The forums say werewolf. Karra doesn't believe in either. She believes in motive, opportunity, and the quiet fact that small towns protect their own.
Her prime suspect is Drucaa Skygrove — the man the whole town whispers about and no one will say a word against. Reclusive. Scarred. Gone every full moon without explanation. He should be easy to hate.
He isn't.
The closer Karra gets to the truth, the more the evidence contradicts itself — and the more Drucaa seems to be protecting her from something instead of hiding something from her. But every answer she uncovers puts her closer to a bloodline curse the Skygroves have buried for three generations, and a killer who's been listening to every episode of her show.
By the time Karra realizes what Drucaa actually is, she's already in love with him — and the next moon isn't the danger.
She is.