Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark, he is hooded, bound at her hands and feet. She doesn't know where she is or how she got there. A man she never sees feeds her and talks to her. He promises to keep her alive for now, but says he will kill her like the others.But Abbie has spirit, strength and bloody mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds she is alone, tells herself stories, remembers her life, talks to her captor and plots her survival. Above all, she reams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life- the land of the living.

Among her memories are a horribly stressful career and a disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend, Terry. Could there be a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear ... ?

Miraculously, she escapes. One nightmare is over...but another is about to begin." "Her memories of the recent past - where she lives, whether she has a job, where she stands with her boyfriend - are oddly out of synch with reality, her normal, everyday life in "the land of the living." As the authorities question her credibility, Abbie can't help but wonder if there is a connection between the facts she has forgotten and the kidnapping itself." Now there's only one way to reclaim both her mind and her life - and stop a monstrous psycho-killer. She must dare to retrace her steps to the place where all the horror began.