A detective has run the same four-step workflow since his first year on the job: Charge. Measure. Seal. Purge. It keeps the work clean. It keeps the cost from accumulating. It keeps him from looking too closely at where the steps came from — and what else might be running them.

When a series of ritual killings in the Chapel district pulls him into something older than the department, older than the law, and considerably more patient, he discovers that predisposition is not coincidence. He was not chosen at random. He was observed. Measured. And recognized.

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