The Ninth Victim

🕵️♀️🩸 THE NINTH VICTIM 🩸🕵️♀️
Eight are dead.
One survived.
The real nightmare is just beginning.

Claire Devon doesn’t remember how she escaped.
She was supposed to be the ninth victim of a serial killer known only as The Arbor Butcher—a name etched into crime scene photos and whispered through police radios for nearly a year. 🌲🔪📁

Eight victims.
All found posed in public gardens.
Each missing their voice box.
Each arranged like an art installation.
Claire was different.
She was found alive—barely—tied to a tree, lips sewn shut, heart rate barely ticking.

But now, two years later, Claire’s carefully constructed recovery begins to fracture.
Because it’s happening again.
And this time, they’re copying her case.

🎙️ THE KILLER IS GONE.
OR SO THEY THOUGHT.
The FBI insists The Arbor Butcher died in a fire.
The copycat theory makes sense—until Claire starts receiving messages written in the killer’s exact phrasing.
Until she finds photographs no one else should have.
Until she sees herself in the background of a new crime scene. 🖼️📸🕯️

Enter Agent Marcus Rhoads, the original profiler on the Arbor Butcher case—disgraced, half-drunk, and the only one who believes Claire when she says:
“He’s still out there. And he wants me to remember what really happened.”

⏳ THE FINAL PIECE NEVER FIT…
UNTIL NOW.

As Claire peels back the layers of her own trauma, she begins to suspect the truth may be far more twisted than she imagined.
Because if she was the ninth victim…
why are there ten names in the killer’s journal?

🕷️ The Ninth Victim is a nerve-wracking horror-thriller about memory, obsession, and the fear that survival doesn’t mean escape—it means you're next.
Perfect for fans of The Silence of the Lambs, Sharp Objects, and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—where the mind is the real crime scene.

Some killers haunt the world.
Others haunt the one who got away. 🩸🌒📖