Caron Darwood

When young journalist Caroline Jarvis enters a disused industrial plant to interview controversial scientist Dr Jordan, she finds herself plunged into a world of nightmares. Jordan is dead, but his son Balthasar is very much alive and looking for company! The living result of Jordan's experiment to fuse man and machine, Balthasar has become the Internet's first mutant child.

Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of murdering him. To top it all off, she has reason to believe that her new tenant Leslie Steckler is the serial killer responsible for a number of deaths in the region. But what she doesn't know is that, in the meantime, Steckler has discovered a little secret about her...