Elaina McCord's dream of being an FBI profiler is threatened by her very first case--investigating a string of murders near a Texas beach resort. The victims, all young women, were brutally murdered, their bodies in abandoned in a desolate marshland. Elaina's hunch--met with disbelief by the local police--is that these are only the latest offerings from a serial killer who has been perfecting his art for years, growing bolder and more cunning with each strike.