It begins with a heart drawn in blood. It ends with a silence that screams. When a string of eerie murders grips the city of Venzia, Officer Anne Lawrence is pulled into a case that feels more like a poem written in violence than a crime to be solved. Each victim is left like a message. Each clue leads somewhere darker. And somewhere beneath it all, a truth is waiting-cold, buried, and bleeding. Some wounds aren't visible. Some justice isn't legal. And some games were never meant to be played.