She's dead. Her list isn't.
Two years after Stinnetta Thomas was arrested, Detective Maya Cruz has left homicide for cold cases. Safer. Quieter. No more psychopaths in white coats.
Then a package arrives at the precinct: a scalpel, a photograph of Stinnetta's grave, and a note that reads: "You stopped her list. But she wasn't the only one."
Across the city, patients are dying again. Same method. Same motive. Same perfect surgical nick. Someone is finishing what Stinnetta started—and they've studied every case.
Maya must return to the hospital she swore she'd never enter again. With a new partner, Detective Sarah Chen, she hunts a killer who isn't a copycat but a legacy: a young surgeon named Rachel Okonkwo, trained by Stinnetta herself from behind bars.
The list is back. And this time, Maya is on it.
Content warning: Graphic violence, surgical horror, murder, medical malpractice, psychological manipulation, and themes of grief and trauma.
