Detective Cassie Larkin has seen what love can do to people. But she’s never seen what it can turn them into. When a young woman is found posed like a romantic portrait—candles lit, ribbon tied, roses arranged with eerie precision—Cassie realizes the murder wasn’t just violence. It was performance . A message dressed as devotion. Then another woman is killed. Same knot. Same wax. Same clean, sweet scent beneath the horror—like someone tried to erase the truth after carving it into the room. As panic spreads through Magnolia Vale, Valentine’s Day becomes a countdown… and Cassie discovers every victim shares a quiet connection to a cold case buried for ten years: the unsolved murder of Hannah Crowe, a woman who died on the night her boyfriend planned to propose. The deeper Cassie digs, the clearer it becomes: this killer isn’t hunting romance. He’s hunting witnesses. And when the next ribbon is tied for someone Cassie loves, she’s forced into a final choice—one that will expose what the town protected… and what it’s willing to sacrifice again. A chilling Valentine’s Day murder spree thriller packed with psychological dread, ritual staging, and a final twist that lingers long after the last page.