Hettie Reed has been left for dead in a shallow grave by a serial-killing monster that hides behind a charming smile. The encounter left her changed...and with a terrible hunger to satisfy. She meets Henry Payton, an elderly retired homicide detective, that is intimately familiar with the manner of her death. He has lived too long between the long night of his own depression and his failure to save the women that haunt him. They are soon in over their heads when they discover that the nature of Hettie's death has brought them to the attention of a larger, darker power. Redemption, vengeance,...

Hettie Reed is a monster. But things weren't always that way. Life on the edges of the rainy city of Monroe, Washington is good. By day, Hettie trains with the witch Baba Yaga, and when the moon rises, she joins her friend Henry and the being called Night. Together, they learn to navigate their new lives: she, as a flesh-eating monster, and Henry, an elderly ex-detective, as Hand to one of the most powerful forces in our world. But when they're called to investigate the strange murder of a farm couple, Hettie's fragile family is thrown into chaos. From the start, nothing is as it seems, and...