When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly
one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special
assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a clue
connecting the two cases to FirstDate.com, a popular online dating
service, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric, publicity-seeking homicide
detective, is convinced that only Ellie can help him pursue his
terrifying theory: someone is using the lure of the internet and the
promise of love to launch a killing spree against the women of New York
City. To catch the killer, Ellie must enter a high-tech world of stolen
identities where no one is who they appear to be. And for her, the
investigation quickly becomes personal. She fits the profile of the
victims, and she knows firsthand what pursuing a sociopath can do to a
cop - back home in Wichita, Kansas, her own father lost his life trying
to catch a notorious serial murderer. When the FirstDate killer begins
to mimic the monster who destroyed her father, Ellie knows the game has
become personal for him, too. Both hunter and prey, she knows her only
choice is to find the killer before he claims his next victim - who
could very well be Ellie herself.
