Profiler Grace Sinclair is perfect: a stunning beauty, a wealthy heiress, a talented writer and one of the most brilliant FBI employees. But she is very reluctant to let men into her life after she encountered a monster many years ago... And now she will have to face him again. Someone is killing successful beautiful women one after another. It soon becomes clear that the killer wants to convey a message, and the addressee of this message is she, Grace... Will she be able to protect her loved ones from the formidable shadow of the past? And will her new colleague, the charming and courageous Gavin Walker, with whom she once spent the night, help her with this? After all, it seems that he himself is becoming too close to her...