The Cemetery Special (Ambush Moon Cycle)

"Marano writes pulp the way it’s meant to be written—tight, lean, gross, and sometimes funny ... Blood, guts, werewolves, and some cracking dialogue—The Cemetery Special is meant to be devoured." - Carson Winter, award-winning author of Soft Targets and A Spectre is Haunting Greentree" Life is the only trap from which we hope never to escape… As Rayne Ellison returns to Merchant Island, daring to believe she might finally have control of her monstrous condition and be ready to lead a normal life, Seattle is terrorized by a series of brutal murders committed by a maniac known as the Rain City Ripper—a cunning psychopath who may not be entirely human. Plagued by visions of the killings, Rayne becomes increasingly obsessed with the murdered women and tracking down the Ripper, even as it strains her newly repaired relationship with Eddie Roberts and his son, Quentin, and resurrects dark urges she hoped to have buried forever. For Remington Morales, a volatile federal agent haunted by years of dangerous undercover work at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Seattle murders are a second chance. Sent north in the wake of his partner’s violent death to assist with the investigation, Remington hopes that by stopping a killer he might find redemption for being unable to save his only friend. And for a brilliant deranged man named Victor Wallace, the killings are the culmination of a lifetime of torturous struggle and sacrifice, as well as precursor to a great and terrible future—for himself, he believes, and perhaps the rest of humanity as well. The Cemetery Special, final installment in The Ambush Moon Cycle, a trilogy of horror novellas from Luciano Marano, concludes the author’s bold and modern take on the classic werewolf myth begun in Hidebound and continued in Dark Cutter.