When retired police detective, turned PI, Kathy Mason, arrives on Mercer Island, fate steps in bringing her face to face with a nightmare she believed she had left behind in New York. Reluctantly she is drawn into the investigation of missing women. Memories of the tragedy which befell her sister Jessie spur her on.
Billy, a devilishly handsome psychopath, visualizes his mother, who abandoned him, in every woman he lures. An abusive foster system has created a monster. Is there one murderer, or two?
Each young victim has a family; each murder has Mercer Island shivering with fear.