Phoenix Police Detective Niall Malone accepts a job to head up a task force hunting down a serial killer in another state. When at last he reports on the job, after spending some time in a Phoenix hospital, he walks smack into a wall of bigoted feelings toward his outsider status.
The defilement of a proud symbol...
The killer s main target points to Medical Examiner, Dr. Shyla Clifford. She receives gruesome, butchered pieces of the bodies to identify, usually frozen. The butcher leaves a unique marker on each body part that has everyone in law enforcement and the military deeply disturbed as chaos and the murders reign.
A doctor marked for death!
Shyla Clifford finds herself fighting to keep her family safe and maintain her new career now that she s retired from the Navy. When pieces of her loved ones keep showing up on her doorstep, among other places, she suffers the kind of fear few ever experience.
A detective assigned to head up the task force appears to make little progress in the case as people continue to disappear. Shyla s desperation and anguish grows to the point her professionalism suffers and she struggles to hold fast to her very sanity. Now it s up to her to find the key to the grisly murders; the race is on to find it before everyone in her family is brutally murdered....
And before she becomes the only one left to run for her life.