Damaged Portland Detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him.Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and torturedhim for ten days, but instead of killing him,she mysteriously decided tolet him go and turn herself in.Now Gretchenhas been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kind—addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days off his mind.Archie's a different person, his estranged wife says, and he knows she's right.He even continues tovisitGretchen in prison once a week,saying he wantsher to confess the whereabouts of more of her victims, but even heknows the truth--he can't stay away.But when another killer begins snatching teenage girls, Archie knows that he has topull himself together enough to lead the new task force investigating the murders.A hungry newspaper reporter, Susan Ward, begins profiling Archie and the investigation, which sparks a deadly game between Archie, Susan, the new killer, and even Gretchen.They need to catch a killer, and maybe somehow now Archie can free himself from Gretchen once and for all. Either way, it makes for one of the most extraordinarysuspense debuts in recent memory.