2021 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Gold Medal for Supernatural Fiction! Let me warn you right now: this story is dangerous. DO NOT RESEARCH THESE EVENTS! Think of it as fiction, and nothing more. The Smith has returned, leaving a new trail of gruesome serial murders across Manhattan—all blonde, beautiful, beaten to death with a blacksmith's hammer. Gavin Gregory, an FBI agent who profiles serial killers for the Behavioral Analysis Unit, couldn't capture The Smith the first time around and wants a second stab at catching the killer. The case takes a bizarre turn when Debra Esteves, a psychiatrist from a New York mental hospital, says she knows The Smith's identity. Esteves spins a tale of disturbing horror from her past, claiming The Smith controlled one of her patients through his psychic influence. But Gavin considers himself a rational man. He believes in science over superstition and rejects her version of events. When his wife is kidnapped, Gavin has no choice but to turn to Esteves for help. Can she keep him safe from the devil hunting him long enough to free his wife from the clutches of the killer or will The Smith make him a pawn in future murders?

Special Agent Gavin Gregory returns in this spine-chilling sequel to Wrath Child! The Bogeyman begins murdering young women in Miami, and Gavin Gregory, the elite FBI profiler who ended The Smith's reign of terror in Manhattan, catches the case. Try as he might, Agent Gregory can't wrap his rational mind around the crimes after he discovers each victim has mutilated herself before delivering the killing blow. Offering to help, Adeline d'Clara claims to be part of a secret government program designed to indoctrinate, cultivate, and train psychic assassins. What's more, she claims to know The Bogeyman comes from a small group of psionic men who can control other people remotely. When Gavin tries to validate her story, he finds only more mystery—there is no record Adeline d'Clara has ever existed. Can Agent Gregory navigate the web of lies and stop the Bogeyman before kills again?

Have you ever had the feeling that someone is pulling your strings, making you dance to their tune? Since the Smith case in Manhattan, Gavin Gregory, one of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit's best profilers, has had those feelings in spades. First it was Glacadairanam, the Wrath Child, who was the hidden hand manipulating his life, but in Miami, Gavin met the power behind the little gargoyle in the form of a creature calling himself Fry. But Fry is much more than a man with an East Texas drawl—as evidenced by his funny habit of turning up in Gavin's dreams. The last time Gavin dreamed of the insane creature, the experience almost killed him. During the two investigations, Gavin learned many things existed he'd always thought impossible—psychics, possession, secret government programs kidnapping children and training them as assassins—but the demonic father-son duo embodied by Fry and Glacadairanam scare him the most. Because when those Devils Dance, Gavin has no choice but to waltz along with them.