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At 46, Dr. Hannibal Lecter is the picture of perfection. He moves effortlessly through Baltimore’s high society, but among the wealthy, appearances are everything, and questions have begun to surface: Why has he never married? Why no children? Behind the veiled glances, judgment emerges—an unwelcome spotlight for a man with bodies in his basement.
When the FBI stumbles upon a crime scene in rural Maryland, they find a single survivor: a deeply traumatized four-year-old girl. The child is clearly not ordinary, something hides within her silence, something deeply concerning. She has seen things she shouldn’t have and lived when others had not, and when she lays eyes on Hannibal Lecter, she doesn’t flinch, she clings.
If society demands the performance of family, perhaps this little girl is the perfect solution. Perhaps, if she carries a darkness like his, she is something even more precious than that: a mirror.