She understands monsters... because she was raised by one.

Special Agent Genevieve Steel is new to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, but she’s no stranger to hunting monsters. Her testimony put her own father behind bars after he abducted, tortured, and scalped at least eighteen victims. She was just a child—and the only one who could stop him.

Now, she profiles the killers who echo the nightmare she once called Dad.

Her new assignment hasn’t even started when a blood-soaked woman crashes into her on a remote hiking trail. Of all the forests in all the world...why that one? Why her?

Genevieve doesn’t believe in coincidences. She knows fate when she sees it.

Everything the woman describes—down to the eerie silence and the scalps taken from her captor’s latest kill—matches the Head Hunter’s signature. And no one on earth knows that signature better than her.

But Genevieve’s father is still locked away. Has someone taken up his twisted mantle...determined to finish the work he started?

She’s faced one Head Hunter before. She can do it again. Unless this one finishes what the first one couldn’t.

The Daughter’s Curse is the chilling first book in the Genevieve Steel series, where past sins and present nightmares collide in a cat-and-mouse thriller that will make you very, very grateful your family tree isn’t lined with scalps.

Published
June 23, 2025
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Mary Stone

Mary Stone lives among the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains of East Tennessee with her two dogs, four cats, a couple of energetic boys, and a very patient husband. As a young girl, she would go to bed every night, wondering what type of creature might be lurking underneath. It wasn’t until she was older that she learned that the creatures she needed to most fear were human. Today, she creates vivid stories with courageous, strong heroines and dastardly villains. She invites you to enter her world of serial killers, FBI agents but never damsels in distress. Her female characters can handle themselves, going toe-to-toe with any male character,…