When FBI Profiler Karen Vail's boyfriend, Detective Robby Hernandez, disappears in Napa Valley, there are no clues to his whereabouts, other than a blood stain and tenuous connections to a vicious serial killer operating in the area.

As the task force struggles with Robby's disappearance, the killer challenges Vail by boldly leaving his high-profile victims in public places. Is this offender somehow responsible for Robby's disappearance?

In a frantic race against time that takes her from the monuments of Washington, D.C. to the wealthy beach enclaves of San Diego and the bright excesses of Las Vegas, shocking truths emerge--truths that will forever change Karen Vail.