From the Darkest Heart

He’s the monster everyone hates. Except her… When Sophie was eight, the most charming Matty Melgren appeared in her life—a new man in her mother Amelia-Rose’s life. He became the girl’s father figure. For several years Sophie and her mom enjoyed his love and kindness, not even suspecting that Matty and the serial killer terrorizing North London—known as the Shadow—were the same person. Nothing alerted them, not even the fact that all of the maniac’s victims looked disturbingly like Amelia-Rose… Matty was caught and sentenced to life imprisonment, yet many still doubted his guilt. He became a true celebrity. But the life of his would-be family was completely ruined.

Now, twenty years later, Sophie receives a letter from the Battlemaut prison saying that Matty is dying of cancer and wants to meet. Perhaps Sophie will finally get answers to questions that have haunted her her whole life. But will this truth set her free—or become the final, fatal blow?…