A serial killer is targeting young Vanderbilt University coeds, one of whom is the daughter of a major university benefactor and Texas oilman. Lt. Taylor Jackson, Nashville cop, and Dr. Samantha Owens, medical examiner, face a huge public relations nightmare. Taylor, struggling with departmental strife, is asked to partner with troubled FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, who is back in Tennessee after a disastrous investigation accident. Owens is perplexed...

Homicide detective Taylor Jackson teams up with her lover John Baldwin, an FBI profiler, when the sadistic serial killer he is tracking comes to Nashville, while ambitious TV reporter Whitney Connolly, believing that this killer is her ticket out of Nashville, will do anything to break the case.

It's a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that the Pretender is back--and he's got helpers.

"While the high-profile murder of a young country singer turns Nashville inside out, danger lurks in the woods beyond the city's border. There was a witness to the terrible crime, a college student who stumbled onto the scene. When the girl goes missing, the police don't know if she's run for cover or been taken...or if something more sinister is happening. The truth will shatter Taylor's career and bring her face to face with a deadly assassin who...

Nashville homicide investigator Taylor Jackson investigates the bludgeoning death of a young mother who has connections to an amateur pornography website.