She saved the girl. Freed her father. Now the enemy is living inside her sister’s house.

Dee never planned to be a vigilante. She just couldn’t stop walking into situations where someone needed one.

This time it starts in a city park. Two young boys, living rough, hiding from something or someone. When Dee and her father bring them in off the street, they think they are doing a good deed. Simple. Clean. Done.

Nothing in Dee’s world stays simple.

The boys ran from foster care, and the reason they ran is darker than anything Dee expected. The more she digs, the more danger she exposes, not just for herself, but for everyone she loves. And fresh from saving her vigilante father from the FBI, Deirdre barely has time to breathe before a second threat surfaces: the man she calls the vampire dude has wormed his way into her sister’s home. Hiding in plain sight. She doesn’t know what he wants, but she knows he’s dangerous.

And this time, she’s on her own.

Forced to operate outside the law, facing enemies who play dirty, Dee must protect two traumatised boys, outsmart a manipulative predator, and defend her family, all while figuring out who she can trust. She is no superhero. Just a woman with grit, sarcasm, and a sense of justice that won’t quit.

For fans of psychological thriller books who want a heroine worth fighting for:

• A mystery thriller novel about trust, survival, and the high cost of doing what’s right
• Suspense thriller pacing, every chapter tightens the screw, no chapter wastes a page
• Crime fiction that confronts child exploitation without ever exploiting it
• A crime series with real moral stakes, Book 3 of 4 in Suffer the Little Children
• Mystery suspense that keeps you turning pages long past the point you should have stopped

Chris Lewando writes psychological thriller books that go where others won’t, with dark humour, emotional precision, and a heroine readers won’t forget.

The boys needed saving. So does her sister. Dee has never been less ready — and never been more determined.