DARKNESS WITHIN

Mystery writer Ashley Grey thought the holidays in Harbor Point, Alaska, would be peaceful. Then a stranger washes up on the shore with a desperate warning about a "Christmas Killer" targeting her town.

When private investigator Marcus Fletcher barely survives his injuries, Ashley finds herself holding the only clue to a decades-old conspiracy-a key that unlocks secrets someone is willing to kill to protect. As Christmas wreaths marked with black berries begin appearing at murder scenes, Ashley realizes she's facing a methodical killer with a thirty-five-year plan for revenge.

The deaths are connected to Project Christmas Angel, a horrific pharmaceutical experiment conducted on orphaned children in 1989. Now, as Harbor Point prepares for its annual Christmas Festival, someone with inherited memories of that trauma is systematically eliminating everyone involved.

With Sheriff Nick Evans by her side, Ashley races to uncover the truth about the orphanage fire, the genetic memory trials, and the identity of a killer who's been planning this Christmas massacre for decades. But in a town where everyone has connections to the past, trust is dangerous-and the killer may be closer than she thinks.

As the body count rises and the Christmas Festival approaches, Ashley must solve the mystery before the darkness within Harbor Point's history claims its final victims. Some secrets are worth dying for. Others are worth killing for.

This Christmas, the past is coming home.