The Gathering

by Josephine Damian

Overview

"They're everywhere, they're everywhere..."

That's the first thing Mahler teaches his investigative team about child predators.

The professor-turned-profiler warns them not to look in the shadows for a monster lurking there. He reminds them danger hides in plain sight; it's the ones you least suspect, the people out basking in the Florida sunshine, the seemingly nice guy with a warm smile for every mother's child he seeks.

The Child Abduction Response Team's mission: identify and stop them.

Mahler demands team members be like Caesar's wife - above reproach. Abide by his standards, or else. If the parents of a missing child can't count on investigators to obey the rules, who can they trust?

But as the anguish and frustration of working child abduction cases mounts, two members of the team, frequently at odds, agonize over taking matters into their own hands.

Can they protect a baby from a fate worse than death? What toll will it take as they carry the burden of their secret? What consequence will they suffer if Mahler finds out what they've done?

Find out by reading the Child Abduction Response Team series.

"The Gathering" is inspired by a twisted, real-life case. When a six-year-old girl disappears, everything points to her father as the perpetrator, but when Mahler and his team dig deeper, they discover a more shocking truth.

Read this gripping psychological suspense thriller today and learn to recognize the predators among us!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162990857
Publisher:	Festina Lente Press
Publication date:	12/26/2020
Series:	Child Abduction Response Team , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	569 KB

About the Author

A funny thing happened on her way to writing a serial killer novel.

Josephine took a page from the Thomas Harris playbook–The Silence of the Lambs author shadowed the FBI agent who’d become the Jack Crawford character–and went one better.

She attended a lecture given by a noted profiler–a psychologist and professor who specialized in lust homicide and child predators, and discovered she had an aptitude for murder–investigations, that is.

The writing went on hold.

Studying under the guidance of the profiling professor, Josephine got her master’s in behavioral analysis and interned at the Medical Examiner’s Office. As the assistant to their forensic anthropologist, she saw dead people. She also cooked them. Grim business, and nothing funny about it. But it was never not fascinating.

Years passed. Then the muse’s siren call beckoned her back to writing.

The Child Abduction Response Team series is a fictionalized account of the hard-earned courage it takes to become an investigator who specializes in missing child cases, crimes that sometimes result in a tragic end, albeit one mitigated by justice served.