Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2)

In the misty hills of England's West Country, a killer stalks the night. Sheep lie slaughtered, their throats torn by something the farmers cannot name, and Hillary Nanspian has taken up watch over the flocksheds with only his rifle and his restless thoughts for company. But the true mystery is not the beast in the darkness: it is the web of human hearts tangled around him, where Honor Luxmore moves like smoke between duty and desire, and her sister Kate watches with eyes that hold their own hungry calculations. The Red Spider is coming, the villagers whisper, a symbol scratched into doorframes and whispered in taverns, a warning from a world that blends old superstition with harder truths. Hillary must navigate not only the danger that skulks beyond the farm walls but the dangerous territory of his own heart, where love and loyalty create their own kind of capture. This is rural Victorian England at its most atmospheric: landscape as character, secrets as currency, and a mystery that threads through every interaction like the spider's silk.