Control is a form of love. She believed that once.
Dr. Juliette Carter has built her career on understanding the darkest corners of the human mind. As an FBI forensic psychologist, she knows exactly how obsession works - how it starts small, how it convinces itself it's devotion, how it festers in silence until it's too late to stop.
What she doesn't know is that someone has been studying her with that same clinical precision.
When a new wave of violence forces Juliette back into a case she thought was long buried, old wounds reopen and old suspects resurface - including the people she trusts most. As the investigation closes in, Juliette realizes the line between observer and observed has already dissolved. Someone has been watching her for years. And they've learned everything.
Caught between Detective Nicholas Hale's fierce protectiveness and a killer who believes prediction is a kindness, Juliette must confront a truth she's spent a decade running from - before the past finishes rewriting her present.
The Lessons is Book One of The Symbolist series - a slow-burn psychological thriller for readers of Gone Girl, Verity, and The Silent Patient.