The Savant: Agony Road: Pleasure. Pain. Power. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798254824626)

"The most dangerous thing isn't what he's done - it's what he's becoming."

Some killers hide.

Others don't even know they exist.

Stryder Holtz doesn't see the world the way other people do. He sees patterns. Structure. What fits - and what doesn't. He edits video for a living, cutting hours of footage into controlled narratives. Clean. Precise. Intentional.

He is very good at removing the frames that don't belong.

He just can't always account for where the time went.

When a series of brutal crimes surfaces, Agent Carter is assigned to close the loop. Find the suspect. Build the case. Move on. Except nothing about it lines up. Not the victims. Not the timing. Not the man they've already decided is guilty.

And then there's Stryder.

Calm. Controlled. Always exactly where he should be.

Until he isn't.

The closer Carter gets, the more something shifts. Not just in the case - in him. In her. In the space between them where the truth keeps refusing to be found.

Corbin Graves wrote himself into the main character. He gave Stryder his anxiety, his dissociation, his CPTSD, the particular way trauma makes a man into a stranger in his own timeline. He has said publicly that he does not know where Stryder ends and he begins.

Some truths don't reveal themselves all at once. Some don't want to be found. And some - are already looking back.

Book 1 of The Savant Series.