Can Monsters be made? What if Jack the Ripper was not the first, but just one in an organised chain of many? In researching her new book, award-winning writer Kate McBride unearths a worldwide conspiracy spanning 150 years. The latest incarnation believes themselves to be unstoppable and is poised to continue this brutal legacy, at any cost. Kate is running out of time, as the horrors of the past catch up with the present. A dark and violent thriller takes the reader from the French aristocracy of the mid-1800s to Victorian London. A Great War, its sequel, and into the modern age. The timelines are carefully interwoven and murderous villainy is divulged, all the time exploring the concept of child manipulation and brainwashing. An ordinary person is thrown into the extraordinary, and the thrills are exponential. First in the Kate McBride Thriller series. For fans of Karin Slaughter, Jeffery Deaver, JM Dalgleish, and Kathy Reichs.