Volume 2 in the Ruthless Storm Trilogy. A prequel, Evan O’Conner isn’t a normal child. His father’s alcoholism and mother’s sexual abuse drives him to concoct a plan to rid his life of them permanently. The night is fraught with a horrendous storm, thunder and lightning as the beast inside him is born. Even in her death his mother won’t leave. She haunts his subconscious as he attempts over and over to kill her. With only a sketch Officer Burkhalder learns the identity of the perpetrator and digs into his life, pries into his past – hunting him. Will she stop him? Or will somebody else?