A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes shes being buried alive, and her last breath is a scream that no one but a sadistic killer will hear. To journalist Nikki Gillette, this disturbing story is a ticket out of small - town Savannah and on to the big time. Shes already given the killer a nickname - The Grave Robber - and shes spending every minute dogging tough cop Pierce Reeds investigation, trailing him through Savannahs deep thickets and crumbling cemeteries...even though shes starting to wonder about the secrets hes keeping. Another body is found...and another. Each gruesome discovery unnerves Nikki a little more...theres something familiar about it, something she should know. Now, as a serial killer pulls her ever deeper into his sick game, she has no idea how close shes getting to the truth - or how deadly it will be.