Doctor Dakota Remington resigns as Coroner at Clarin General Hospital in Los Angeles, California. After becoming a victim of a violent crime, Dakota finds that she is unable to detach herself from the prostitutes who lay on her autopsy table, all of them victims of a cunning and calculating predator stalking the seedy back streets of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Dakota makes plans to move to the Bay area after the attack, leaving behind not only her attacker, but the man responsible for breaking her heart ¿ Detective Michael Stone. But when well-known artist and respected psychiatrist, Tabitha King is murdered in an upscale neighborhood; her death has everyone asking the same question: Are they dealing with more than one killer? Dakota is drawn into the serial killers web of deceit, and whispering secrets of a forgotten past. And just when she thinks that things can¿t get worse, they do. She learns that her mother is harboring a dark secret from thirty years past that puts the two of them directly in the path of the serial killer. And although terrified, she finds herself unable to walk away.