When your past comes calling, it doesn’t knock—it kicks in the door with a bloody grin and a ritual dagger. I’ve gone toe-to-toe with demons, vamps, and nightmares that’d make Hell itself flinch, but nothing—and I mean nothing—prepared me for the sins crawling out of my own bloodline. Someone’s carving arcane symbols into Fairfield’s elite, and the trail of corpses leads straight into the shadows of my past. The kind of secrets that don’t just whisper in the dark—they scream. As if that wasn’t enough, I’ve got the demon Xaglath breathing down my neck for a crown steeped in eldritch horror, my now vampire ex waltzing back into my life with fresh corpses and old betrayals, and my partner Knight barely holding it together while her girlfriend’s consciousness is being devoured by a fae horror named Noct. And don’t even get me started on the psychopath who wants my head on a plate. I’m bleeding from more holes than I can count, cutting deals with devils that’d love to eat my soul for breakfast, and racing against an apocalyptic ritual that’ll drown the world in blood. So yeah, business as usual, I guess… and business is too damn good for my liking. Blood Ties, the explosive twelfth instalment in the Ethan Drake series, is a bullet-riddled, demon-haunted journey through the darkest corners of a detective's fractured life. It's about the family you're born into versus the family you choose, and how sometimes the only way to save the world is to burn down your own past. Grab your whiskey, load your gun, and remember—in Ethan Drake's world, even the monsters have monsters to fear.