After surviving a ferocious assault in the line of duty, Detective Nan Vining has returned to the Pasadena police force. Her newest assignment: cuffing the killer of a Los Angeles policewoman who was unceremoniously dumped on a Pasadena hillside. Could this spiteful, vicious crime be related to Vining's own assault?

Determined to make headway amid the rigorous demands of work and family, Vining is reluctant to share with others the extrasensory visions she's experienced since her attack-yet these deeply troubling psychic clues may just lead to a solution in this disturbingly bizarre case. As she follows the bloody trail, using every resource available, Vining closes in on a kinky husband-and-wife murder team . . . desperate to intercept them before their next sadistic killing.