Headlights
An instant USA Today bestseller!
"A sharp, dark supernatural horror that gripped me from start to finish."—V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.
Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it's happening again.
Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway, with no memory of how they got there, wearing the skin of victims they've allegedly never met. And they each share one haunting detail: a strand of a stranger’s hair is tied around their tongue.
Now Daniel is pulled back into the gruesome cycle, and every clue leads him deeper into the shadows of his own past. He will have to confront the ghosts of his traumatic childhood and face what’s been hunting him all along— before he and the people he loves become the next victims.
Headlights is both a heartfelt examination on grief and a love letter to Stephen King's The Shining in this pulse-pounding hunt across the frozen wilderness of Colorado by bestselling author CJ Leede.
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Screaming, crying, and throwing up from page one.
In an attempt to finally outrun the ghosts of his past and Bad Feeling that’s been chasing him for as long as he can remember, Denver’s shining detective, Daniel Stansfield has decided to quit the force. Today is the first day of the rest of his life, starting with his grand plan to reenlist for the third and final time before retiring away to his own secluded cabin in the mountains. That is, of course, if he comes back alive. All of that changes when his six year old cold case gets much more personal and a whole lot warmer.
After a broken hiatus of The Drifters, people unconscious to their surroundings until found walking with the hides of their human victims over their naked bodies- whose only connection is a strand of hair tied around their tongue, the weight of Daniel’s lifelong grief is a beacon for something seemingly sinister. When answers his case feel like they are close to being revealed, so are many more questions he must attempt to decipher before the next victim is found.
CJ Leede has done it again with Headlights! Full of grief and fear, with a fast paced and fully immersive sense of hopeful anticipation. This has quickly become my favorite novel of hers, it left me ravenously clinging to every page. Astonishing work from a powerhouse of an author!
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