Instead of preparing for her high school graduation, Lucy Kincaid is facing a vicious execution. Lured by an online predator, she is destined to die horribly, live on the Internet, while hundreds of heartless viewers watch and vote on the method of her slaughter. Her only hope rests with Kate Donovan, an FBI agent who took on the same sadistic killer once before.

"Bella Caruso survived a nightmare of abuse and betrayal. Today, she has dedicated her life to saving other young women from the hell that almost killed her--first as an officer of the law, then by stepping outside the law and into the darkness where true evil dwells. Now, it appears that the darkness has taken her once again. JT Caruso often worries about his sister, given her line of work. This time, when he learns that Bella is working undercover...

Staying in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her best-selling novel is made into a Hollywood film, Rowan Smith, a former FBI agent haunted by her past, finds her life becoming a nightmare when a dismembered body is found in Colorado, a victim who bears an all too striking resemblance to a character in her novel.