Ryan Evans is a Military Intelligence officer who is very good at what he does. Out of a deep commitment to his country, he has let his home life and marriage suffer deeply. His wife and their adopted teenage daughter have more or less given up on him.

On an assignment in Fallujah, Ryan is captured and forced to witness the death of several children over a period of time. Their bones are crushed, without breaking the skin and they die a horrible death.

If Ryan would only give his captors the name of his wife and child, the killings would stop... but his own family would suffer the same fate instead. He escapes but is horribly damaged mentally. He knows he needs to go home and mend the rift in his family. He has discovered how important his daughter’s love is to him.

Upon his return home, his wife and daughter turn their backs on him and he sinks into deep depression.

A serial killer had been arrested earlier for killing young women, eerily, in the same manner as Ryan had been forced to witness. But lack of evidence forces the police to release their suspect.

Now the killer has turned his eyes to Ryan’s beautiful daughter and is taunting him. Ryan must find the killer within a set time frame while eluding the police himself as a possible suspect.

This is the first Ted Dekker book I had listened to. I am not usually much of an audio fan but the narrator, Robert Petkoff, brings the characters to life and holds the listeners' attention.