Violet ‘West’ Shelley has unwillingly spent her life in the spotlight as the only daughter of a legendary poet and feminist icon who died tragically young. Now, as the self-described ‘lowbrow’ crime journalist approaches fifty–burned out, creatively blocked, and far older than her mother ever was–she retreats to her hometown in the Colorado mountains hometown to finish a long-overdue book about the ‘Crying Killer,’ a notorious serial killer who sobs for his mother after committing his crimes. But what begins as a bid for solitude quickly spirals into something far more sinister. A stalker emerges–mysterious, relentless, with accusations disturbingly intimate: this invisible stranger insists that West is their long-lost mother, though West has never had children. As the threats escalate and her carefully defended privacy starts to shatter, West is drawn into a chilling psychological web where the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to collapse. Is she being watched? Hunted? Or is her own mind turning against her?
