A winter's tale with a sting. There's a newcomer to the small Northumberland village of Haydon...a charming novelist and film buff, researching a crime thriller about a serial killer on a rampage in a remote Northumberland community. The only trouble is, it's a work in progress and it's going to be non-fiction. 392 men, women and children stand in his way to achieving a sadistic dream. As the worst winter in more than a century approaches, can two investigating police officers trapped with the terrorised residents stop this monster?

Han Whitman's twisted journey continues in what will be an explosive finale. After the Northumberland massacre, Han Whitman has returned to his normal life. But the carnage in Haydon has changed him. He is a haunted man, jaded by those bloody events. That is, until he realises that his original experiment is incomplete. The experiment must continue, but along a different path. One survivor of Haydon teams up with the son of one of Han's victims to hunt Whitman down. As Han continues his experiment, wading into tides of human filth, and finding love in the most surprising of places, in the...