Bloodlines

Her DNA was supposed to reveal her family. Instead, it linked her to a serial killer.

Alyssa Carter has spent her entire life wondering why her family tree ends in empty branches. A consumer DNA test finally promises answers, but instead of finding long-lost relatives, she finds FBI Special Agent Vincent Marlowe on her doorstep. The results connect her biological family to a decades-old string of gruesome murders, each body mutilated, marked with carved words, and deliberately staged.

Determined to learn where she came from, Alyssa follows a trail of sealed records, missing relatives, and generations of buried family secrets. But someone doesn’t want the past uncovered. Her home is entered without signs of forced entry. Personal items disappear and reappear in impossible places. Anonymous messages prove the killer knows where she lives, where she goes, and what she’s planning before she acts.

As the investigation closes in, Alyssa begins to question whether she’s being hunted because she’s asking the wrong questions...or because the answers are written into her blood.

Every answer about Alyssa’s past leads to an even more terrifying question: if evil runs in her family, was she born with it—or is someone determined to convince her she was?

If you like the dangerous family secrets of The Family Upstairs, the creeping, inherited dread of A Flicker in the Dark, and the morally gray choices of Jar of Hearts, Bloodlines will pull you into a psychological thriller where a DNA test turns one woman’s search for belonging into a legacy of murder and blood may be the most dangerous inheritance of all.