A picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monsters hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation. Is the terror just beginning? Or have the good citizens of Gladstone harboured a dark secret for a long time? Sheriff Miranda Knight is determined to make her small town safe once more. And she does what she swore she would never do - involve FBI profiler Noah Bishop. Hes the one man who knows about her unique abilities, and that knowledge almost destroyed her sister years ago. But now Miranda and Noah are about to hunt for a killer whose madness has no bounds, a killer who knows exactly how to destroy Miranda: by preying on her sister.