He's Still Out There
The city fell silent every time the news reported the number of missing people. Three women, three faces plastered across posters and headlines—all taken without a trace, all found too late. The shadow of a serial killer loomed large across the streets, and fear was no longer a feeling: it was now routine. But then, something no one expected happened. Samantha O'Connell, 25, a visual arts student, was found alive. She had been missing for four days. She was found on the side of a country road, covered in mud, malnourished, with obvious signs of captivity and violence. Her eyes were like glass: fixed, dilated, as if they could still see something that no one else could. The white room, with its clean smell and soft light, contrasts sharply with the horror that Samantha survived. The fate of Samantha, police officer Isabela Cruz, Doctor Emily Hartmann, and reporter Mei Tanaka is about to intertwine irreversibly. The man who took her is still out there. And he will not give up on his victim. The hunter's game is not over yet.