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KILLER INSTINCT:
 
She’s not evil, but she has certain. . . urges.
 
Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. Afterschool job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick.
 

Editorial Content for Killer Within: A Killer Instinct Novel

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Corinne Fox

Three months after Lane’s traumatizing encounter with the Decapitator, she’s left to reassemble her life after the damage done by the killer. She’s growing closer to her family than ever before, but she feels an emptiness inside, a gnawing void that she can’t satisfy. Her dark urges are still resurfacing, but with the ramifications of her encounter with the Decapitator, she’s unsure of what to do about them. Read More

Teaser

It’s been three months since Lane made her first kill --- the sadistic Decapitator --- and now she feels both closer and more alienated than ever from her united, grieving family. Haunted by conflicting memories of her mother, Lane resumes her role as the vigilante Masked Savior out of a feeling of obligation --- but her heart just isn’t in it anymore. Now that Lane has felt the rush of deeper, darker thrills, a growing part of her wants to revisit its seductive power, and she’s not sure how long she can resist.

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It’s been three months since Lane made her first kill --- the sadistic Decapitator --- and now she feels both closer and more alienated than ever from her united, grieving family. Haunted by conflicting memories of her mother, Lane resumes her role as the vigilante Masked Savior out of a feeling of obligation --- but her heart just isn’t in it anymore. Now that Lane has felt the rush of deeper, darker thrills, a growing part of her wants to revisit its seductive power, and she’s not sure how long she can resist.

About the Book

It’s been three months since the sadistic Decapitator’s demise, and Lane feels both closer to and more alienated than ever from her united, grieving family. Haunted by conflicting memories, she resumes the role of Masked Savior vigilante --- but her heart just isn’t in it. For Lane now knows the rush of deeper thrills. Darker thrills. And a growing part of her wants to revisit its seductive power.

To Lane’s chagrin, the Masked Savior inspires its own fan site, where groupies gather online to praise, document, and debate each delivered act of justice. But then one of Lane’s secret admirers becomes a cunning copycat, assaulting the defenseless with escalating violence. And Lane suspects someone is spying on her, edging closer to making contact.

Someone who knows her secrets.

And the identity is but one of many revelations to shake Lane to her core...

—Connie May Fowler, author of REMEMBERING BLUE

Editorial Content for Killer Instict

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Corinne Fox

Lane is planning on attending her dream college next year, she has siblings and parents whom she cares about deeply, she gets great grades and she volunteers after school; Lane is normal. Or is she? How normal can she be when she harbors a secret fascination with serial killers that she has carried with her whole life --- a fascination that has turned her into a rather emotionless, rational thinker with the urge to hunt down and harm these criminals in the name of justice? Read More

Teaser

Lane is a teen who channels her dark impulses by hunting criminals and delivering justice when the law fails. The vigilantism stops shy of murder, but with each visceral rush, the line of self-control blurs. And when a young preschool teacher goes missing --- and returns in pieces --- Lane gets a little too excited about tracking down “the Decapitator,” the vicious serial murderer who has come to her hometown.

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Lane is a teen who channels her dark impulses by hunting criminals and delivering justice when the law fails. The vigilantism stops shy of murder, but with each visceral rush, the line of self-control blurs. And when a young preschool teacher goes missing --- and returns in pieces --- Lane gets a little too excited about tracking down “the Decapitator,” the vicious serial murderer who has come to her hometown.

About the Book

She’s not evil, but she has certain...urges.

Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. Afterschool job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick.

Why?

Because she might be one herself.

Lane channels her dark impulses by hunting criminals --- delivering justice when the law fails. The vigilantism stops shy of murder. But with each visceral rush the line of self-control blurs.

And then a young preschool teacher goes missing. Only to return...in parts.

When Lane excitedly gets involved in the hunt for “the Decapitator,” the vicious serial murderer that has come to her hometown, she gets dangerously caught up in a web of lies about her birth dad and her own dark past. And once the Decapitator contacts Lane directly, Lane knows she is no longer invisible or safe. Now she needs to use her unique talents to find the true killer’s identity before she --- or someone she loves --- becomes the next victim.

—John Grogan, author of MARLEY & ME

—Lily King, author of EUPHORIA

—The Bark

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The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker

Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she’d spent a lifetime preparing for --- her Choosing ceremony --- to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she’ll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it’s her duty to follow the true way of the Authority.
 

The Choosing