Some symbols are meant to stay buried.When a body is discovered staged with ritual precision, Detective Rowan Vale is drawn into an investigation that feels disturbingly personal. Each crime scene bears the same inverted lantern mark - deliberate, controlled, and unnervingly familiar.As the murders escalate, Rowan begins losing time. Reflections linger too long. Memories surface that do not belong to her. And somewhere in the quiet spaces between seconds, something identical to Rowan is watching.The killings are not acts of rage.They are acts of preparation.As Rowan closes in on the truth, she realises the case is not about catching a killer - it's about finishing a ritual that never truly ended.And Rowan may not be hunting the monster.She may be what it has been waiting for.