Meet Axel J. Hyde, Assistant Medical Examiner by day and ruthless serial killer by night. Deeply traumatized at a young age, when he narrowly escaped the clutches of a pedophile clown, his fear of rapists, stalkers, and all those who ‘feed on other’s terror’ turned into a need for murder after his encounter with something he calls a Rider: an urging spirit that drives him to hunt down, kill, and dismember all those it deems worthy targets of its games. Because of this, Axel never had a real life: he feels empty and extraneous to human society. However, when a series of bizarre murders of ex-convicts hits his killing grounds, Axel begins to suspect that maybe he’s not the only one hosting a bloodthirsty spirit that needs feeding. This REMASTERED version of Jeffrey Kosh’s first novel (published in 2012) has a different, expanded finale that will grip you down to its last blood-drenched page.