Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects where success might cost her own life.

With a serial killer known as the Sin Eater stalking women on the streets of Des Moines, Iowa, Riley Fisher, an FBI agent on her first assignment, while investigating a death threat against the newly elected female state governor, discovers a connection between this case and the hunt for the Sin Eater.

A killer is watching...Thirteen years ago, Winter Black came home early from a sleepover to find her parents brutally murdered and her little brother gone--taken by a serial killer called The Preacher. Now a rookie FBI agent assigned to her first murder case, Winter has returned to the small Virginia town where she grew up. But when bones found by a hunter lead to the discovery of a secret burial ground containing the remains of children, the investigation...