The first book by the super-popular contemporary writer Nora Roberts, published in the West under the pseudonym JD Robb, opens one of the author's most successful projects - a series about Eve Dallas, a police lieutenant. The action of the detective-futuristic novels included in this cycle takes place in New York in the near future. Each book reveals the secret of a specific crime. In this novel, the reader will witness Eva's investigation into the crimes of a mad maniac terrorizing the city. The victims of a serial killer are young, beautiful women. The cruelty and sophistication with which he deals with the unfortunate would be the envy of Jack the Ripper himself. But the most important thing is that he does not leave behind any traces that could help Eve catch the criminal. And then the suspects include an irresistible, handsome billionaire, the mysterious and stunningly sexy Irishman Roarke, for whom Eve begins to feel an extremely inappropriate sympathy in this case... Will Detective Dallas be able to unravel the bloody tangle, stop the killer and save the life of the next victim? And where will her unbridled passion lead her?