The Collection

Every killer leaves a signature.
This one leaves a gallery.

Regus is a city built on gilded lies—crime families and high society tangled together in a decades-old waltz of corruption. To the public, Dr. Dennis “Denny” Mirani is one of its brightest stars: a respected psychiatrist, generous patron of the arts, and the charming heir to a powerful family. Behind closed doors, he is something far darker—a sadist who abducts his victims, savors their suffering, and immortalizes their agony through the hands of one woman: Zilphia, the artist he’s kept imprisoned for over a decade.

Zilphia Mirani’s life is a silent captivity. Sold to Denny as a teenager by her neglectful parents, she survives by painting what he demands—landscapes of where he discards his victims, laced with the quiet horror of what she’s seen. But lately, she’s begun to fight back the only way she can: embedding hidden symbols and clues in her work, praying someone will notice.

Detective Joy Anderson has spent years chasing a killer she can’t quite name. The trail has been cold—until she notices the paintings. Each one captures a location tied to a murder, some showing places the police haven’t even searched yet. Joy is convinced the artist and the killer are one and the same—until her partner uncovers a link to a missing woman from his own past.

As Joy digs deeper, the truth begins to surface: the artist is not the monster, but his prisoner. And the closer she gets to rescuing Zilphia, the closer she comes to becoming part of Denny’s twisted masterpiece—because his most ambitious work yet will be her final portrait.