When Claire Shaw wakes in a Seattle hospital, she remembers nothing of what has happened to her. She doesn't recognize the concerned faces of her husband and friends. She knows only that she is lucky to be alive, the single surviving victim of a vicious serial killer. She was a mistake - not like the others. She didn't understand. That was obvious now. But she would come to understand. Next time, there would be no escape - and her eyes would fill with that perfect, beautiful terror...