A baffling string of murders throughout the country leads Detective Garrett Dobbs and FBI Agent Jessica Gimble to the family of two Ivy League intellectuals who raised their adopted children in a traumatizing experimental environment. Simultaneous.
Theres a killer on the road, and nobody is safe.
Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grownMichael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychologythey trust each other before anyone else. Theyve had to.
In Los Angeles, Detective Garrett Hobbs and FBI Agent Jessica Gimble have joined forces to work a murder that seems like a dead cinch. Their chief suspect is quickly identified and apprehendedbut then theres another killing just like the one theyve been investigating. And another. And not just in Los Angelesthe spree spreads across the country. The Fitzgerald family comes to the investigators attention, but Dobbs and Gimble are at a lossif one of the four is involved, which Fitzgerald might it be?
From coastal California to upstate New York, Dobbs and Gimble race against time and across state lines to stop an ingenious and deeply deranged killerone whose dark and twisted appetites put them outside the range of logic or experience.