Not a man to dwell on the past, Stone Barrington has no choice but to
rattle old skeletons when the people closest to him start dying, and he
has little to go on but the suspicion that the killer might be someone
he once knew. The trip down memory lane isn't all bad though, for it
reunites Stone with his ex-partner, Dino Bacchetti, now head of
detectives in the nineteenth precinct.
Trying to find a brilliant killer in a sea of old faces is difficult
enough without Stone's former love, Arrington, now Mrs. Vance Calder,
resurfacing too--especially when she sets off her own fireworks coming
nose to nose with his latest flame, a Mafia princess as beautiful as she
is dangerous.
Caught on a thrill ride of a case that tests him as none has ever done
before, Stone races to find a twisted madman with a taste for blood
vengeance, with only a prayer to find him before Stone's worst fears are
realized.