Eternal Legacies: Blood of the Innocent: An MM Dark Urban Fantasy Mystery: 1

Rosewood has a dark side that never makes the news. Detective Dorian Blake has spent ten years solving murders. Long enough to know some crimes don't have clean explanations-only evidence the official record refuses to acknowledge. When an entire family is slaughtered outside the city zoo and the sole survivor, eight-year-old Lucas Barnes, describes a monster with red eyes and too many teeth, Dorian does what he always does.He follows the evidence.This time, it leads somewhere he never imagined.The two men who keep appearing at the edges of Dorian's investigation aren't what they seem. Gabriel-too composed, too precise, with eyes that see more than they should. Rafe-all dangerous charm and careful deflection, wearing sunglasses at night and a cross he finds funny for reasons he won't explain. Between them, they guard truths the world buried long ago. And the creature that killed the Barnes family isn't the only thing hunting in Rosewood.The deeper Dorian digs, the more impossible the truth becomes. And in a city that has no idea what walks its streets at night, a child is running out of time.The truths hiding in Rosewood's dark alleys will cost Dorian everything he thought he knew about the world.And some truths are written in blood.