The First Scarlet Door

In the first of three prequels to New York Times bestselling author J.D. Barker’s wildly popular 4MK series.

In the first of three prequels to New York Times bestselling author J.D. Barker’s wildly popular 4MK series.

Before he was known as the Four Monkey Killer, he was just a boy trying to survive.

Charleston, 1999. Fifteen-year-old Anson Bishop didn’t mean to killnot the first time, anyway. Raised by parents who taught him that murder was simply survival, Anson thought he’d escaped his dark past when his home burned and his mother vanished with stolen mob money.

He was wrong.

Someone is hunting Charleston’s forgotten childrenthe runaways, the addicts, the ones no one will miss. When the few people Anson has come to care about vanish into the night, he discovers a truth more horrifying than anything his parents taught him: there are monsters in the world far worse than the one he