Length8h 6m
About this audiobook
Jonathan Grimes — the killer the papers called the Surgical Stalker — took twenty-three lives before the state strapped him to a gurney and stopped his heart. When he died, the doctors did the merciful, modern thing. They harvested what was still sound in him and gave it away: a heart, a pair of lungs, corneas, marrow. Six strangers woke from surgery with a second chance, and a grieving city told itself that even a monster could, in the end, leave behind some good.
It was wrong.
Within weeks, the recipients began to change. A kindergarten teacher, blind for years, opened her new eyes on a world running with blood. A devoted father came to in his car with no memory of the night and a stain on his shirt he could not explain. A meticulous scientist felt her steady hands drawn, again and again, to the edge of a blade. One by one, ordinary people who had wanted nothing more than to live began dreaming a dead man’s dreams — and craving the things he had craved.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror
Length8 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 20, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1: The Last Breath
4Chapter 2: A Gift of Sight
5Chapter 3: Heartbeat of Darkness
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6Chapter 4: Whispers of the Blade
7Chapter 5: The Support Group
8Chapter 6: The First Cut
9Chapter 7: The Name of the First
10Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
11Chapter 9: The Held Breath
12Chapter 10: Pressure
13Chapter 11: Family Ties Severed
14Chapter 12: What the Heart Wants
15Chapter 13: The Witnessing
16Chapter 14: The Researcher’s Experiment
17Chapter 15: The Threshold
18Chapter 16: The Support Group Unravels
19Chapter 17: The Wrong Man
20Chapter 18: The Column
21Chapter 19: The Doctor’s Dilemma
22Chapter 20: The Account Closed
23Chapter 21: The Common Variable
24Chapter 22: The Careful Hand
25Chapter 23: The Hunters and the Hunted
26Chapter 24: Into the Abyss
27Chapter 25: The Betrayal
28Chapter 26: The One Who Fought
29Chapter 27: Day or Night
30Chapter 28: The Ritual
31Chapter 29: Sacrificial Lamb
32Chapter 30: What Hannah Left
33Chapter 31: The Net
34Chapter 32: Racing Against Evil
35Chapter 33: The Final Confrontation
36Chapter 34: Shattering the Vessels
37Chapter 35: The Price of Freedom
38Chapter 36: Eleven Days
39Chapter 37: The Healing Begins
40Chapter 38: Shadows of the Past
41Chapter 39: Redemption’s Path
42Chapter 40: Two of a Kind
43Chapter 41: The Gardener’s Verdict
44Chapter 42: The Only Move She Couldn’t Garden
45Chapter 43: The Unbelieving
46Chapter 44: Scatter
47Chapter 45: The Last Audience
48Chapter 46: The Wall That Held
49Chapter 47: The Sixth Name
50Why I Wrote Killer Cadaver
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