Blade St. James has looked out for Dr. Tori Crew since they were children, yet even a homicide detective is shaken when a stalker puts a knife to the behavioral analyst’s throat.
Forced into a covert criminal investigation, Tori leans on her forensic training as a sophisticated serial killer’s pattern takes shape, even as the independent life she assembled after her parents’ unsolved murder starts to come apart.
Still carrying the cost of parental abandonment, Blade has been trying to build a quieter, more stable future, but her peril pits his guardian instincts against the peace he wants.
A conspiracy rooted in Tori’s past pulls them further in, and the desire they have kept out of their friendship becomes impossible to ignore.
They have to identify the killer before his pattern closes around them both.
