In his debut novel, A Cruel Season for Dying, Harker Moore infused a tension-filled thriller with an extraordinary sense of atmosphere and human intimacy. Now his Japanese American detective James Sakura returns to face the Eater of Souls, a horrific killer who suffocates his female victims and uses a scalpel like a surgeon to satisfy an insatiable hunger. For the NYPD cop, a new season of fear and evil has begun.