He surfaced 2 yrs ago. After that he disappeared. But Detective Angie Pallorino hasn’t overlooked the violent rapist who still left a distinctive phoning cards—crosses etched in to the flesh of his victim’s foreheads.

Whenever a comatose Jane Doe is situated in a local cemetery, sexually assaulted, mutilated, and nearly drowned, Angie is struck with the eerie similarities to her previously unsolved rapes. Could he end up being back? Then the body of the drowned young woman, also bearing the marks from the serial rapist, floats about The Drowned Girls up in the Gorge, as well as the hunt for a predator becomes a search for a killer.

Assigned to the joint investigative task force, Angie is normally more than prepared to verify that she’s what it takes to break into the all-male homicide division. But her personal existence collides with her professional ambitions when she’s launched to her temporary partner, Adam Maddocks—a guy she’d met simply the night time before in an intense, private encounter.

Jointly, Angie and Maddocks consent to put that night in it. But as their search for the killer intensifies, so does their shared desire. And Angie’s forays into the mind of the monster tremble loose some unsettling secrets about her very own past.

How can she fight for the truth when it turns out her very existence is a lay?