She lost her job on Fleet Street. She lost her place in the world. Chrissie, a single mother, retreats to a quiet village, only to find herself invisible to its glittering women and their perfectly wealthy lives.

Alone and isolated she begins writing a book about the Hillside Strangler—but then he writes back. And when he asks her to visit him at Washington State Penitentiary, she steps into a desert of heat, stone, and shadow, where every secret she has carried comes alive.

In the echoing corridors of the prison, Chrissie confronts not only the darkness of a killer—but the bitterness, betrayal, and fractures inside herself. She discovers that wounds are not prisons, but gateways; that pain can be transformed into light; that the parts of herself she once hid or hated can bloom into courage, love, and belonging.

Part true crime, part psychological journey, part spiritual awakening, The Natural History of Serial Killers is a hypnotic, haunting exploration of isolation, desire, and the impossible alchemy of the human heart—a story for anyone seeking to turn their own fractures into the flowers of life.