Her own past comes under scrutiny and enemies close to home want her to fail as Seattle Police Dept Detective Alice Madison and her partner hunt down a skillful, determined murderer with a talent for death... and Madison's private life falls apart.
After two years in the Seattle Police Department Detective Alice Madison seems to have found the kind of peace in her private and working life that she has not known before. However when a burglary escalates into an horrific murder she is put in charge of the investigation and finds herself tracking a killer who might have stalked the city for years and whose existence is the stuff of myth in high security prisons. Her own past comes under scrutiny and enemies close to home want her to fail as Madison and her partner hunt down a skillful, determined murderer with a talent for death, and Madison's private life falls apart.