Special Agent Smoky Barrett was once one of the FBI's best profilers--until a madman killed her husband and daughter. Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again...and turning it on herself. Because for a woman who's lost everything, what is there left to lose? She's about to find out.

 No one has ever encountered anyone like him--a new breed of killer'who defies profilers' attempts to understand or identify him. And he'scoaxed Smoky back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live: a challenge, and an innocent child. As this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder,Smoky comes alive again to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman,a mother...and a killer's next victim.