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Title: The Shrike
Series: Standalone
Trope Reveal: August 26, 2026
Release Date: July 13, 2027
Author: Cora Reilly
Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller
Cover Designer: Ervin Serrano
Tropes: Criminal Profilers, Game of Cat and Mouse, But Daddy I Love Him, He’s Obsessed with Her, Obsessed MMC, Stalking as a Love Language, Romance with A Slice of Murder, If He Touches Her, She Actually Might Die, Age-Gap, She Will Be His Undoing, Professor/Student, Obscenely Dark Workplace Romance, Morally Gray Characters
𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗳*𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘆.
𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗛𝗜𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗘…
Violet has one goal in mind: to be the city’s top criminal profiler. She’s smart. She’s hungry. She wants to stop killers almost as much as she wants to forget the twisted obsession she feels for Dr. Nathan Caster.
Nathan has never met a fellow criminologist he couldn’t best. Not until Violet arrived in his world as a student four years ago, with her sharp questions and even sharper eyes. He’s waited four years for her to graduate and it killed him every day not to touch her. Now she’s no longer his student, and they can both have what they’ve been waiting for.
Then the Shrike takes his first victim. Then the next. And then the next. Each body, pierced with thorns and dripping blood as birds sing in his wake. He kills without remorse. He’s impossible to catch. And Violet must hunt him down.
𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵.
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