*~* STANDALONE NOVEL *~*A killer . . . that's what I am.It's what I do.It's what I live for.I'm no longer the Preston Hale everyone knew. I left that life and the people in it a long time ago the second I made my first kill. I wasn't going to give in, but when I heard the screams there was no going back.It triggered the pain, the need.I knew what I had to do, and I did it well. But I never expected for Emma Turner – the only link to my past – to come back into my life.She triggers a different emotion inside me, something I hadn't ever felt.It's not a want to kill . . . but a need to CLAIM.