Redefining the thriller's tale of the hunter and the hunted, This electrifying, hypnotically beautiful debut spins dark suspense and literary fantasy into a mesmerizing story of survival.

Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she doesn't know it yet. However, one man does: a killer stalking the women of New York City, a monster the media dubs the "Sickle Man" because of the weapon he uses to turn his victims' bodies into canvases for his twisted art. People think he's the next Son of Sam, but we know how he thinks and how he feels . . . and discover that he is driven by darker, much more dangerous desires than we can bear to imagine. He takes more than just his victims' lives, and each death brings him closer to the one woman he must possess at any cost.

Amid the city's escalating hysteria, Katherine is trying to unknot her tangled heart. Two very different men have entered her previously uneventful world—handsome and personable David, alluring yet aloof Sael—and turned it upside down. She finds herself involved in a complicated triangle . . . but how well does she really know either of them?

Told from the alternating viewpoints of Katherine and the Sickle Man, Sophie Jaff's intoxicating narrative will pull you in and hold you close. As the body count rises, Katherine is haunted by harrowing visions that force her to question her sanity. All she wants is to find love. He just wants to find her.

Ablaze with fear, mystery, and possibility, Love Is Red is the first book in the Night Song trilogy. With this unforgettable novel—one that combines the literary and the supernatural, fantasy and horror, the past and the present—Katherine's moment of awakening is here. And her story is only just beginning.

This electrifying, addictive, and hypnotically beautiful debut spins suspense and literary fantasy into a stunning epic—the first volume in the Night Song Trilogy—ablaze with fear, mystery, and possibility.

Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she isn’t aware that this future awaits. However, there is one man who knows the truth: A killer stalking the women of New York, a monster the media dubs the “Sickle Man” because of the way he turns his victims into canvasses for his mesmerizing, twisted art.

Unleashed upon Manhattan after lying dormant for centuries, the Sickle Man kills to harvest the precious hues of his victims. As his palette grows, so too does his power. Every death brings him closer to the one color, and the one woman, he must possess at any cost.

While the city hunts the Sickle Man, Katherine must decide what to do about two men who have unexpectedly entered her life: handsome and personable David, and alluring yet aloof Sael. Though she’s becoming increasingly torn between them, how well does shereally know them? And why is she suddenly plagued by disturbing visions?

Told from the alternating viewpoints of Katherine and the Sickle Man, Love Is Red is a riveting thriller that unfolds into an intense story of obsession and control, desire and fate. Katherine may not realize it yet, but with this haunting novel—as arrestingly original as Marisha Pessl’s Night Film, Patrick Süskind’s Perfume, and Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls—her moment of awakening is here. And soon she will find herself fighting a battle at the edges of our world, among forces more dangerous than we can possibly imagine.

La sua prima arma è il sorriso: accattivante, irresistibile. Adocchia le sue vittime nei locali alla moda di New York e le seduce con studiata naturalezza. Le fa parlare, le osserva, offre loro da bere e alla fine riesce sempre a portarle là dove vuole arrivare. Già tre ragazze sono morte nell'ultimo mese, la pelle incisa da arcani solchi, e mentre le forze dell'ordine si affannano per trovare il più piccolo indizio, non c'è donna sola, in città, che non sia costretta a convivere con la paura. Quando, nel clima di angoscia scatenato dai misteriosi omicidi, Katherine incontra David per la prima volta, la chimica tra i due è immediata. David non è solo bello, è anche colto, garbato, pieno di attenzioni. Tutto il contrario di Sael, il suo migliore amico: freddo, scostante, eppure dotato di un fascino dall'intensità quasi elettrica. Prima ancora di accorgersene, Katherine si ritrova invischiata in un doppio gioco di seduzione dove niente e nessuno è quel che sembra. E mentre il conto delle vittime sale e l'intera città sprofonda nella psicosi, il cerchio di un destino dalle radici antichissime si stringe attorno a Katherine e ai due uomini che le confondono il cuore. Alla fine, la verità verrà a galla in tutta la sua sconcertante potenza, in un crescendo di colpi di scena dalla portata terrificante.