BARRICADE EVERY WINDOW. BOLT EVERY DOOR. SKI MASK WON'T DIE.

A savage killer who loves animals, Ski Mask bows to no one, slaughtering through blood-soaked shadows with lethal precision. A volatile experiment by Dr. Franklin Grimm and his father Alfred grants Ski Mask multiple lives, making him a near-unstoppable force. But Alfred’s demand for Franklin’s focus—over his obsession with the Madisonville asylum—risks unraveling the science sustaining him.

As the asylum’s feared security chief, Ski Mask stalks its dark corridors, crushing all who defy him. A local hero enlists him to pierce a deadly conspiracy behind a guarded wooden door. A preteen girl’s cryptic mission hurls him into a savage, unseen world. When a dangerous asylum escapee threatens chaos, Ski Mask wades through society’s hellish underbelly to hunt them down. Each task tests his extra lives to the limit.

Claire, caretaker of his beloved animals, haunts his thoughts, her growing role in his missions and the Grimms’ experiment threatening to crack his killer’s focus. Can he trust her enough to let her in, or will her pull be his undoing?

The gripping second book in the Maniac on the Loose series, 9 Lives of Ski Mask weaves a relentless, twist-fueled thriller that seizes you until the final word.