Bloodlines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798201877897)

Nature versus nurture can someone be born evil or are monsters made?

A young woman finds out that she comes from a long line of killers, thrusting her into a conflict over whether evil is learned or born. Nature or nurture; are killers born that way or are they made that way through years of abuse?
The Clayton family of West Virginia is very well known but not for good reasons. In an improverished community the Clayton's are the worst of the worst and looked down on by everyone. Wayne Clayton tries to break the cycle by leaving but when he finds himself a single father of a newborn he has to return home.
Rory Clayton, unlike his father Wayne, embraces his evil nature and as a young man goes on a killing spree across the country. Finding himself in California with a wife and young daughter, Rory lives a double life. To everyone else he's a normal family man that works hard, but in the darkness of the night he's a remorseless serial killer who only feels joy when he's hurting others.
Scarlett Clayton has had a chaotic life, moved from California to Colorado in the dead of the night by her mother after a shocking revelation she tries to move on, she knows there's something she and her mother are hiding from but could never comprehend the true danger she is in.
Can Scarlett finally break the cycle of murder and senseless killings that has plagued her family for generations or will she come to accept that she is truly her father's daughter and must carry on the evil bloodline?