Black Heart

Michael Hunter has spent his entire life outrunning the shadows of his past. As a boy, he escaped a state-run "programme" buried deep in Ireland's forgotten institutions - a place designed not to heal, but to create something far more dangerous. Now an adult, he has turned his trauma into a weapon, hunting the predators society refuses to see.

When a new generation subject - seventeen-year-old Evan Mallory - escapes from a supposedly legitimate youth rehabilitation centre, Michael is drawn back into a web he thought he'd burned down years ago. Evan is everything Michael once was: terrified, conditioned, and on the brink of becoming the very thing the programme intended him to be.

Detective Laura Mills, already tracking the mysterious vigilante cutting through Dublin's underworld, soon finds herself caught between duty and instinct as Michael, Evan, and the truth converge. But the programme isn't dead - it has evolved. Its architect, Director Harold Collins, is rebuilding it in secret, and Evan is his newest project.

What follows is a relentless chase across the Dublin Mountains, abandoned schools, rain-soaked forests, and the hidden institutions scattered through Ireland's darker history. As fire, betrayal, and buried secrets rise to the surface, Michael must decide whether he is a protector... or a weapon forged for a purpose he never chose.

BLACK HEART is a gripping psychological crime thriller about trauma, survival, and the thin line between justice and vengeance - where monsters aren't born, but made.