Julia Vargas is a cop with a objective. When she’s not really chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer . the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and wiped out himself three decades before. While gossips continue to swirl around her dad’s loss of life, Julia tries to look for the truth.

The case once again hits dangerously close, however, when a woman’s bones are discovered in a historic downtown house, together with a photograph of Jim and Julia as a young girl. As horrifying as this finding is, it could just be the break Julia has waited for. Functioning alongside Tobias Novak, a homicide detective with whom she shares a complicated—and steamy— background, she’s compelled to confront her very own past even as the Hangman looms in the shadows. But mainly because the inexplicable killer circles nearer, Julia can experience her personal noose begin to tighten . . .