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...

"Allison Doyle's new case will make her career ... if she lives to solve it. Motive, opportunity and no alibi--rookie detective Allison Doyle knows it's as close to a slam dunk as most investigations get. But even though her small-town Texas police department has identified a prime suspect in a young woman's vicious murder, she can't rest easy. And when legendary FBI profiler Mark Wolfe shows up with a startling new theory, all her doubts are amplified....