SERIAL INTENT -- When Lindsey Fetter opened her eyes, the man that killed her husband stood at the end of her bed...When Charlie Dunn pocketed his cell phone, he could only stare at the empty ice on Lake Michigan. The monster that killed his wife and son before his eyes had just been released from prison... When Ellen Dumont visited her parent's gravesite alone one quiet night, it never occurred to her it would be her last moment on earth.450 murders is a slow year for Chicago Homicide Detective Aaron Wolfe. He carries all of them with him. Long ago he had to learn to bury the pain and angst so he could navigate the carnage and hunt the killers. Something he was really good at. But the years of the rising crimson tide and broken legal system became more than he could bear. Too many innocent victims lived his his heart, and too many monsters escaped through the legal cracks. On the eve of his resignation, Wolfe saw the man convicted of the Dunn family killings would be released the next day-another twisted legal maneuver denying justice. When Wolfe had taken on the Fetter and Dumont cases, his sick world took another bizarre turn. The worst of the worst who beat the legal system were being killed by sniper fire. And the snipers were being found with their skulls crushed by bare hands! Aaron Wolfe knew two horrific factions were engaged in a dark war that could change everything. Can Wolfe uncover the secret force on a reckless mission to remedy the failing criminal justice system? Can he stop the skull-crushing beast terrorizing the city? Or will Homicide Detective Aaron Wolfe succumb to his scars and allow a new kind of justice to prevail in his city of predators?