A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connection except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness - and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear. Eve Renner knows Out Lady of Virtues Hospital well. As the daughter of one of its doctors, she spent her childhood exploring its secret chambers, hidden rooms, and forbidden passageways. Now, somewhere in the decaying asylum lies the key to a betrayal from the past whose echoes are being felt with a vengeance - a crime beyond imagining that seems to lead to Eve herself.
