Prom Night and Hills Have Eyes 2 star Jessica Stroup is joining “The Following” in its second season. She will play Max, an NYPD officer working in the Intel Division, who is also the niece of FBI profiler Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon).

According to EW, the new season picks up a year after the events of the season one finale and finds a new murder spree spreading across the city courtesy of serial killer Joe Carroll and his cult of deranged followers.

The series also co-stars newcomers Tiffany Boone (Beautiful Creatures) as a new impressionable member of Carroll’s cult, Valerie Cruz (“Dexter”) as an NYPD detective, James McDaniel (“NYPD Blue”) as an FBI agent, Sam Underwood (“Dexter”) as a villain and Connie Nielsen (Nymphomaniac) as Ryan’s love interest.

Stroup, who is coming off The CW’s “90210,” broke into acting with a string of indie frighteners, including Vampire Bats with Lucy Lawless and Steven R. Monroe’s Left in Darkness. Roles in producer Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes 2, Screen Gems Prom Night and the Mischa Barton psycho-bitch drama Homecoming followed.