O'Dell and Cunningham believe they're responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Now, inside an isolation ward at a biosafety containment hospital, she must analyze clues to catch the killer... knowing she may not live long enough to discover who it is.

While investigating the ritualistic murders of Catholic priests across America, Maggie O'Dell stumbles upon an Internet role-playing game for youths who have been victims of male authority figures, forcing her to make a bargain with evil in the form of sadistic child killer Father Michael Keller to stop the madness.