Once Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the
best-until a madman terrorized her family killed her husband and daughter and left her face
scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer Smoky shot him dead-but her
life was shattered forever. Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams
about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger one last time. Because
for a woman who's lost everything what is there left to lose? She's about to find out. In all
her years at the Bureau Smoky has never encountered anyone like him-a new and fascinating kind
of monster a twisted genius who defies profilers' attempts to understand him. And he's issued
Smoky a direct challenge coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could
convince her to live. The killer videotaped his latest crime-an act of horror that left a child
motherless-then sent a message addressed to Agent Smoky Barrett. The message is enough to shock
Smoky back to work back to her FBI team. And that child awakens something in Smoky she thought
was gone forever. Suddenly the stakes are raised. The game has changed. For as this deranged
monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder Smoky is coming alive
again-and she's about to face her greatest fears as a cop a woman a mother . . . and a
merciless killer's next victim.
