Sawyer James is a cop-angry, isolated, and running from her past. Sexually abused by her father as a child, she guards dark secrets she shares with her twin sister, numbing old wounds with alcohol. But when her sister is admitted to psychiatric care, Sawyer is forced to work with the hospital social worker, who leaves her no choice but to face the horrors she's spent a lifetime avoiding.
Sage Carson is a clinical social worker, divorced and done with romance. One man, she's decided, was enough for a lifetime. But meeting Sawyer awakens questions about her own desires that she can no longer ignore. As Sage and Sawyer fall into an unexpected relationship, Sawyer can't afford distractions-because her hunt for a serial rapist-murderer is about to become dangerously and devastatingly personal.