In this new thriller from the 2016 Edgar Award nominee, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin steps in to face a ruthless killer. A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping Beauty awaiting her prince. When a former student, calling himself "the Mindhunter," jeopardizes the police inquiry by leaking details to the media and stirring up public anger, Joe has no choice but to intervene.

He discovers a link between the farmhouse murders and a series of vicious attacks in which the victims are choked unconscious and brutally scarred. Now, he must stop a ruthless and brash criminal who has graduated to murder. Now hunting a brash and merciless criminal, Joe's fate and that of those closest to him become dangerously intertwined until he must risk everything to save what remains.