Men are dying unexpectedly in Charlotte, North Carolina - all victims of bizarre accidents. No one will call these deaths murder. No one except small - town cop Melanie May. She sees the pattern: a serial killer targeting men who have slipped through the fingers of justice. Alone with her awful certainty, Melani risks her career to convince Connor Parks, a troubled FBI profiler, that she's right. Suddenly Melanie is in the lime light, lauded for uncovering the dark angel. But her involvement makes her a target. For as she and Connor study the victims, their deaths, the signature the murderer leaves at every scene, Melanie comes face-to-face with a terrible truth. The profile Connors created fits someone in her own lifeā¦a profile of a cunning killer, one without remorse and bent on revenge.