The shot to the head didn't kill Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor
Jackson. But it will crack her psyche and take her to the very edge. In
her showdown with the murderous Pretender, a bullet taken at close range
severed the connection between Taylor's thoughts and speech. Effectively
mute, there's no telling if her voice will ever come back. Trapped in
silence, she is surrounded by ghosts -- of the past, of friendships and
trusts lost...of a lost faith in herself and her motives that night.
When Memphis Highsmythe offers Taylor his home in the Scottish Highlands
to recuperate, her fiancé can't refuse her excitement, no matter his
distrust of the man. At first, Memphis's drafty and singularly romantic
castle seems the perfect place for healing. But shortly the house itself
surrounds her like a menacing presence. As Taylor's sense of isolation
and vulnerability grows, so, too, does her grip on reality. PTSD. Pills.
Ghosts. Grudges. Someone or something is coming after Taylor. But is she
being haunted by the dead...or hunted by the living?