I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE
Detective Alex Burton has spent his life hunting monsters.
His gift — an unsettling ability to sense evil — has helped him catch some of Britain’s most brutal killers, but at a terrible cost.
Haunted by what he has seen, Burton walks away from the police and disappears from the world.
Five years later, a series of savage ritual murders terrorises the English south coast. With the body count rising and the killer always one step ahead, Burton is pulled back into the darkness he tried to escape.
Forced to work alongside brilliant criminal psychologist Doctor Laura Anderson, Burton soon discovers the murders are connected to the nightmares that have tormented him for years.
As Laura becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind his gift, they are drawn into a terrifying mystery where the line between human evil and something far older begins to blur.
Some nightmares never end.
Some evils have always been here.
The world ceased to spin upon its axis. All laws of motion and physics suspended and defied. Time, if it had ever truly existed, ceased to pass.
Nothing could really hurt him in here. It was all in his own mind. But that, he knew, was where the real dangers always lived.
