Michael has learned the hard way that her profession invites danger: she's a forensic psychologist - an expert in analyzing, and in a perfect world outsmarting, the criminal mind. But some deviants will never be understood or rehabilitated - like the purely evil perpetrator who has crossed Michael's path before.
Alex B. Willy is a sadistic child molester, a man of monstrous deeds and chilling obsessions. Michael had often interviewed the incarcerated Willy who was flattered by her attention and disclosed the modus operandi of a pedophile, and even boasted about his crimes. Now, his thirty-year sentence suddenly cut short, Alex Willy is sprung from prison. And the one person who threatens his freedom, who knows the depths of his sickness and his seamless lies, is Michael Stone. Willy invades Michael's personal and professional worlds, delving along the fault lines of her psyche - and setting her up for a chilling coup de grace.
