An Evening with CJ Leede in conversation with Victoria Menendez

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Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.
Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it's happening again.
Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway, with no memory of how they got there, wearing the skin of victims they've allegedly never met. And they each share one haunting detail: a strand of a stranger’s hair is tied around their tongue.
Now Daniel is pulled back into the gruesome cycle, and every clue leads him deeper into the shadows of his own past. He will have to confront the ghosts of his traumatic childhood and face what’s been hunting him all along— before he and the people he loves become the next victims.

CJ LEEDE is a horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She is the author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture. Her debut novel Maeve Fly won the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award and Splatterpunk Award, and earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination. When she is not driving around the country, CJ can be found in LA with her boyfriend and rescue dogs.

Victoria Menendez is part of the Horror Readers Team at Books & Books. Born and raised in Miami, Victoria read Frankenstein at the young age of 13, and was forever inducted into the horror club. When she's not being possessed by Madame V, the devilish host of the annual Books & Books horror writers event, The Grim Gables, reading and reviewing terrifying books on her Instagram @victoria_readsstuff, writing horror stories about puberty demons and vampire break ups, or taking care of her howling sidekick Ruby, she's running amok at Books & Books recommending as many underrated spooky books as she can.

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