Beyond the shores of Hope's Peak, North Carolina, evil waits as his next
victim approaches. He'll make her a princess like the others...
Detective Jane Harper can't shake the image of the young woman
discovered in a field--eyes closed, a crown of woven vines on her head.
She expects macabre murders like this in her native San Francisco, not
here. Jane and her partner, Stu, vow to catch the killer, but in this
town, that's easier said than done. The police department is in the
grips of a wide-reaching scandal that could topple the entire force, and
Jane and Stu face a series of dead ends. Until they meet Ida Lane.
Ida knows too well the evil that lurks in the cornfields. Tortured by
her mother's murder years before, Ida is paralyzed by the fear that she
could be next. As the killer grows bolder, Jane must persuade Ida to use
her remarkable gifts to help in the investigation. It?' a decision that
brings them closer to the killer...maybe too close.