“We still don't know who he is. Sometimes he seems to be a madman, other times he seems calm and clinical. It's almost as if he's two different men at once.” Desperately in need of help, Maddie travels to Stratford so she can start hunting for her only friend. When she arrives, however, she discovers that the city's obsession with Jack the Ripper is getting worse. Soon marauding gangs are roaming the streets, and Maddie finds that her infected wound is causing a series of startling hallucinations. Finally she realizes that there's only one place where she can be safe. Meanwhile, in 1888 Doctor Charles Grazier struggles to revive his dead wife. As he takes more and more body parts from women and transplants them into Catherine, he realizes that he's in a race against time. Cradle to Grave is the third book in a new horror series, titled The House of Jack the Ripper. This book ends on a cliffhanger, and the story continues in the next book in the series.