Darkness at the Edge of Town

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO, TO SAVE SOMEONE YOU LOVE?She died in his arms, and there was nothing he could do about it.Her blood all over his clothes, her body across his lap, he held her while sitting in the middle of the road.It had been a morning like any other. Who would have thought this would be the last day of her life? Looking into her eyes, staring dead and empty, specks of blood on her face, her mouth slightly agape, Marcus wondered, What had been her dreams? What had been her hopes? Where had she been coming from, and where had she been going?This was what he did, being a homicide detective. San Francisco's finest, the city by the bay, now beleaguered, under siege, by The YouTube Killer. A killer who's putting his kills, online. Filming them, then uploading them.Can Marcus stop The YouTube Killer before he strikes again?Marcus chose this path, and now he walks it. Living with the dead. Visiting them. Trying to understand their last moments. What were they telling him? The ghosts from his own past. The losses he'd faced in his own life. Could he redeem himself? He hadn't been able to save his mother. He hadn't been able to save his wife. And now the YouTube Killer was testing him: San Francisco's most famous detective, how much was he willing to give, in order to save the lives of others? Would Marcus be willing to give up his own life?Caught in a deadly game broadcast to the entire world, Marcus finds himself unwittingly becoming the most popular reality television star of all time, all while his life, and the lives of others, hang in peril. A spiraling descent into the darkness of his own past, Marcus fights to not only save the citizens of San Francisco, and his loved ones, but also himself.