The UNSUB has made contact.After a rapid string of grisly murders shakes the usually peaceful city of Arlington, Virginia, the sadistic killings of young women lull into a deceptive calm. Agent Sadie Bonds knows the terror isn't over; serial killers don't stop until caught.And this sadist has targeted the profiler, revealing pieces of her dark past and weaving her secrets into each gruesome crime scene. Is the killer someone from Sadie's past, her present? Or is he part of a fated future she brought on herself? The answer lies within the riddle of the copycat killings, ones mimicked after the infamous Blood Countess.As tension brews in the department awaiting the UNSUB's next move, Sadie's more than on edge-her deviant cravings have ratcheted out of control. Only Colton Reed has his own twisted secrets that, as they come to light, threaten to unravel not only Sadie, but the UNSUB's carefully constructed web.