Insect - J D Scattergood

Known only as The Butterfly, he’s a tool of the trade—trained to stalk, sedate, and slaughter young women for a black-market operation ruled by the tyrannical Madame. Eleven months a year, he rots in solitude within a decaying forest cabin. For one month, he dons his face and returns to the hive to work.
Numbed by ritual and stripped of identity, The Butterfly is no longer a man—until he meets Era, a sharp-tongued kleptomaniac who jolts something long buried within him: memory, desire, guilt. But Madame doesn’t let her monsters go.As The Butterfly begins to question his purpose and his past, he must choose: remain the perfect predator—or defy his creator and become something more.

INSECT is a psychological descent into violence, madness, and fragile redemption—perfect for fans of philosophical horror, literary thrillers, and morally complex anti-heroes.