STRANGE GAMES IN THE DARK

Some games are played for money. Others are played for lives.Detective Eric Hayes is investigating a series of disappearances that seem to have little in common-until the trail leads him into the hidden corners of the digital world.Behind encrypted networks, promises of wealth, travel, and opportunity are being used to lure vulnerable young women into something far more dangerous. At the center of it all is Victor-a charismatic and calculating figure who understands that the most effective form of control doesn't require chains.As Hayes digs deeper, the investigation becomes a psychological game in which manipulation replaces violence, trust becomes dangerous, and everyone seems to be hiding something.Then there is Alice.Beautiful, intelligent, and impossible for Hayes to ignore, she enters his life just as the investigation begins to consume it. What starts as attraction develops into something neither of them expected. But falling in love is complicated when you're a detective surrounded by secrets-and when the woman you're falling for may have secrets of her own.Soon Hayes is caught between an investigation he cannot abandon and a relationship he no longer wants to walk away from.Victor isn't the only one playing.And the closer Hayes gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to distinguish love from obsession, trust from manipulation-and the hunters from the hunted.Strange Games in the Dark is a dark psychological crime thriller about manipulation, obsession, power, dangerous attraction, and the games people play when they believe no one is watching.