He loves her too much to kill her.
That’s what makes her dangerous.

When thirteen-year-old Jeremiah goes frog hunting in rural Ohio, he stumbles upon something he was never meant to see. In that moment, something inside him fractures, quietly, permanently. The boy who comes home is not the one who left.

Loss follows. Then isolation. Then the slow erosion of right and wrong.

As Jeremiah grows, so does the darkness living inside him, patient, persuasive, impossible to silence. He learns how it feels to give in. How power hums beneath the skin. How control is an illusion that tastes like freedom. When he finally embraces his deepest urges, an entire world opens to him… one that begins to consume him from the inside out.

Then he meets Victoria.

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She disrupts the careful order of his darkness. She awakens something dangerously close to hope. Jeremiah tells himself she might save him, but love has never stopped a monster before. How long can he hold back what he’s become?

And when the darkness finally wins, will there be anything left of the boy who once existed?

If you crave dark, unsettling psychological suspense, The K will pull you into the unraveling mind of a serial killer and refuse to let go. This is not a story about redemption. It’s about obsession, inevitability, and the terrifying question of whether love can survive evil or only delay it.

My Review

This is such a creepy book. One of the best books I have read this year so far. It’s dark and unsettling, with a main character in Jeremiah White who sinks to unspeakable depths of depravity. I’ve read reviews that say you can’t help being drawn to him. I, for one, am not. And not just because of the frog hunting (which is bad enough).

After his father dies and his mother falls into a deep depression, 13-year-old Jeremiah is pretty much left to his own devices. And then he finds a body in the swamp behind his house. His reaction is not normal.

He is sent to live with his Uncle Stanley, where he seems to be getting on pretty well. He goes to the local school – Uncle Stanley gets him a bike and a dog. He also happens to be a taxidermist, which suits Jeremiah down to the ground. So far so good.

But deep down, for Jeremiah, it’s all about his obsession with skin, especially freckled skin, and no-one has more beautiful skin than Victoria Burkmeyer. Can his love for her save him from his deepest, darkest thoughts and redeem him?

Savanah McCleary is a detective, the daughter of a cop, and someone who is determined to catch a serial killer. She gives us her point of view at intervals throughout the book. I really loved her.

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

Dawn Merriman writes creepy small town murder mysteries from her small farm in northeast Indiana where she lives with her husband and teenage children. You can often find her with muck boots on her feet and a story in her head. She enjoys animals, auctions, snorkeling and archaeology.

Dawn Merriman grew up a small town farm girl, on a small time pig farm in Indiana. She spent her young adulthood sitting on her bedroom floor scribbling stories in notebooks. She won the “Northeast Indiana Young Writers” award as a sophomore in high school.

After battling severe depression, she wrote her debut novel How Murder Saved My Life as therapy, mixing her love of murder mysteries and farming with climbing out of the darkness of illness.

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