FBI agent Matthew Roarke has been on keep, and in seclusion, since the catch of mass killer Cara Lindstrom- the sufferer turned avenger who preys in predators. Torn between devotion to regulations and a robust attraction to Cara and her lethal make of justice, Roarke provides retreated from both to search his spirit. But Cara’s escape from custody and a law enforcement detective’s cryptic concern soon draw him out of exile-into the California desert and deep into Cara’s past-to probe an unsolved murder that could be the key to her lengthy and deadly career.

Following young Cara’s trail, Roarke uncovers a horrifying attack on the schoolgirl, the stunning suicide of another, and a human being monster stalking Cara’s outdated senior high school. Separated by sixteen years, crossing paths in the present and previous, Roarke and fourteen-year-old Cara must race to find and prevent the sadistic sexual predator before more young women are brutalized.

Publication IV in the Thriller Award-nominated Huntress/FBI series