Marked in Red

Chloe Morrison came to Nashville to rebuild her life. A job at a record store, an apartment she could afford, the kind of quiet anonymity that lets you forget the person you used to be. Then she heard a woman scream in the dark, and the quiet ended.

The Blackwood pack has held Nashville for decades — predators disguised as a security company, wolves who protect their territory with claws and contracts in equal measure. Their alpha, Eric Blackwood, has spent a century collecting broken people and turning them into something with teeth. Something like a family.

But something ancient is stirring in the Tennessee dark. Something that kills wolves and wears their faces. And Chloe — human, untrained, carrying a guitar with a rattlesnake rattle on the headstock — might be the only person who can hear what's coming.