Publication Date: Nov 2014

Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance.

But when victims of a brutal new serial killer start turning up, the Naturals are pulled into an active case that strikes too close to home: the killer is a perfect copycat of Dean’s incarcerated father—a man he’d do anything to forget. Forced deeper into a murderer’s psyche than ever before, will the Naturals be able to outsmart the enigmatic killer’s brutal mind games before this copycat twists them into his web for good?

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What To Expect:

In The Killer Instinct, book 2 in “The Naturals” series, you can expect a YA mystery/thriller involving a serial killer with some romance

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Content Warnings:

Language: Mild – Few uses of damn, hell

Sexual Content: Strip poker (doesn’t go further than guys taking off shirts and one girl taking her shirt off to reveal bikini top underneath), kisses only

Violence: Moderate – Profiling a serial killer mentions blood, torture, and other violent instances as if you are the killer, blood & dead bodies mildly described, child kidnapping (past), kidnapping (present)

Substance Use: Mild – Drinking at a frat party, possibly underage

Prejudices: None

Religious Themes: None

Other Topics: Death of loved ones, PTSD from past trauma, grief from death of family member

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