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Detective Dave Kelly is certain his town is cursed. Alongside new partner, deeply-troubled and fiery Irishwoman, Caitlin O'Connor, he is investigating the mysterious deaths of young, vibrant people. Their near-mummified corpses are accompanied by lines from a nursery rhyme designed to taunt the police force.

A killer is stealing the very life-force of his victims to extend his own but in this case, Brodie and Scott, legendary monster hunters, can be of little assistance. This is not a Celtic killer.

As Kelly and O'Connor struggle to gain any traction in the case, a new hunter is on the trail. A legendary gunslinger and lawman has been tracking and killing these shadow creatures for a very long time and he is headed to Geelong for a showdown. Kelly and O'Connor will not believe just who is coming to town.

But this hardened hunter is also in for a shock as the true identity of the killer is discovered and it will bring his distant past crashing into the present. A reckoning is long overdue.

Who will survive this new gunfight?