Blood on the Altar - Paperback

by Kristal Moon (Author)

Dr. Zora Langston has built a glamorous life in Miami as one of the nation's top criminal profilers. But when a brutal murderer in Ohio known as "The Congregation Killer" turns church sanctuaries into ritualistic crime scenes, Zora is pulled back into a world she swore she'd left behind.

Each victim is a church official. Each murder, a twisted sermon punishing a specific sin. And the deeper Zora digs, the more she begins to see a symbolic pattern in the killings, one that chillingly echoes the darkest corners of her childhood and the secret horrors of her family's church ministry - secrets she's never dared to face.

Forced to partner with Columbus lead detective Malik Reyes, the man she once loved and left behind, Zora races to decode a symbolic trail of clues before the next "sacrifice" is chosen.

With each new body, Zora realizes she isn't just hunting a psychopath; she's being led on a twisted pilgrimage. To unmask a killer who speaks with the authority of a prophet, Zora must confront the ghosts she's spent her life running from-and the terrifying possibility that the blood being shed is a sacrifice meant just for her.