Detective Frank O'Rourke has spent his career staring into humanity's darkest corners. He knows every crime scene tells a story. Every killer leaves something behind.
When a young woman is found murdered in a Manchester, New Hampshire motel room, it looks like another case. Another file. Another name to add to the list. But as more bodies surface, a pattern begins to emerge. Something deliberate. Something patient.
Something that's been there all along.
As the pressure mounts and the killings grow more personal, Frank finds himself pulled into a hunt that refuses to stay confined to the case file. The job demands everything, as it always has. But the life waiting for him outside the badge-his family, his marriage, and the pieces of himself he's managed to hold onto-begins demanding something in return.
To catch a killer, Frank will have to confront more than the evil waiting in the shadows. He'll have to decide what he's willing to sacrifice... and whether there's enough of himself left to make it home.