Book excerpt: Taylor Simon is the well to do owner of Simon Investigations who has been summoned home by her grandfather due to a number of his friends who have apparently fallen victim to a serial killer. His fear is that he may be next, and all that stands in the way of him surviving is the help from Taylor, his quick-witted granddaughter. Determined to save her grandfather, she is caught in a dichotomous situation with Sheriff Rick Thorn. Taylor has been secretly in love with the sheriff for years, but she too has a past which she desperately needs to keep hidden from Rick. Now that they are working on the case together, their lives start to intertwine to the point where everything may come out! While Taylor is working to capture a serial killer, she finds a new wrinkle that may make the whole situation explode. There has been a new generic drug that less than scrupulous people have experimented with. With it comes the morphing into killing machines with powers the world has never seen before. With all this raining down on Taylor at once, she must rectify in her own heart the relationship she is starting to have with Rick and the interaction with his beautiful teenage daughter. Can she save her grandfather, or will she have to choose between the case and her long-lost love Rick. Everything will be revealed through a series of bizarre incidents and accidents that