Detective Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape the past. He sought to raise his young daughter away from the violence of the big city; so he's unprepared for the horrific killer he discovers, whose bloody trail may lead to Portland's social elite. It is late one September evening when the mutilated body of a teenage girl is found dumped in a Portland scrap yard. She has been viciously assaulted, her heart surgically excised from her body. A young businesswoman, similar in body type, was abducted earlier that day as she jogged through the city's historic district, and McCabe, now head of Portland PD's Crimes Against People division, has reason to believe both are the work of the same man-a killer well-versed in anatomy and who may have struck before. As the case unfolds, McCabe's calculating ex-wife reemerges, determined to reclaim the daughter she abandoned. But might the killer also have his sights on the detective's home? In this irresistible thriller, the case becomes a race against time to rescue the missing woman and unmask a sadistic killer-before he can take more lives.