When Alexandra Rafferty was thirteen, she was raped by the boy next door. But it didna (TM)t stop there. He continued to threaten her; she pulled out her daddya (TM)s handgun and, never meaning to, shot him dead. When her father, a cop, found her, he promised no one would ever find out. The secret is a lot to live with, and it has influenced Alexandraa (TM)s life. Now on the Miami PD, she lives with her father, who has Alzheimera (TM)s, and struggles with an empty marriage to her husband. The current case she is involved with a " a serial rapist who murders his victims a " holds a gruesome fascination for her, since it seems to mirror her past a " and she increasingly starts to see herself in the bodies left behind. Her marriage is tested by her obsession with her work and her ill father, but even more by her husbanda (TM)s secret agenda: Stan has been having an affair, and has staged what he believes will be the perfect crime. Alexandra finds herself on the run a " from her husband, from the people who are after her husband, and from a killer whose vow for vengeance places Alexandra in mortal danger.