For Her, For Them by Rita Jo Norvoteny | Motivated Savages

For Her, For Them

by Rita Jo Norvoteny

Comedy mixed with horror

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Claire Evans has a habit of surviving things she shouldn’t.

She panics at the wrong moments, jokes when she should run, and wanders into places no one invited her to be. Disasters gather around her like punchlines—and somehow, she always walks out alive. Everyone calls it luck.

Colin Cross knows better.

Colin runs a court-mandated therapy program for supernatural serial killers, built on rules, restraint, and the belief that violence follows patterns. For a long time, he believes Claire is just an anomaly he needs to protect.

Until he starts seeing the map.

Across abandoned casinos, opera houses, graveyards, and ruins, the same pattern repeats: Claire arrives, the environment reacts, the killers escalate—and she survives by inches. Not because she is spared, but because something intervenes.

The Veil—a hidden council formed from the killers’ former right hands—claims to exist to prevent catastrophe. What Colin realizes too late is that Claire isn’t being protected.

She’s being used.

Her presence destabilizes monsters. Her panic breaks momentum. Her unpredictability resists control. She is not bait or sacrifice—she is a measurement, pressure applied to test systems and the man meant to enforce them.

Every near miss is a question.

How close can they get before control breaks?

How far can they push Colin before he kills?

Claire remains stubbornly herself—loving, loud, unaware she has been almost murdered more times than anyone can count. When the truth surfaces, it isn’t about monsters, but systems. About safety used as leverage. About love turned into a test.

The book does not end in bloodshed.

It ends in clarity.

The monsters are still alive.
The Veil is still watching.
But the pattern has been seen.

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Book Details:

• Genre: Horror, Comedy
• Format: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook