Friendship comes at a cost. For beautiful Mary-Ann Walker,
who struggled with the challenges of a difficult family
history, that cost proves to be her life. With Mary-Ann's
past as its only guideline, the Seattle homicide unit must
delve into the relationships between a misguided young
woman, her family, friends and lover. Let the
psychological duels begin.
Seattle Police forensic psychologist Daphne Matthews, who
volunteers as a teenage runaway counselor, is haunted by
the loss of a suicide, a "jumper," of a year earlier. When
a woman's body is found beneath the Aurora Bridge,
Matthews is one of the first at the scene -- and begins a
puzzling investigation that is entangled with the pasts of
Matthews, the victim, and even Seattle itself.
Mary-Ann's boyfriend has a record of physical abuse, and
an attitude that Matthews finds difficult to crack. When
the victim's grieving brother surfaces, throwing blame
onto the boyfriend and craving revenge, Matthews gains an
unstable ally she does not want.
Then the stalking begins: the eerie phone calls, the
noises outside the house, the shadows that move in the
night. Someone has their eye on Matthews--but to stop her,
kill her, or to help her solve the crime?
While her colleagues, police lieutenant Lou Boldt and
sergeant John LaMoia, pursue a hotel room peeper in hopes
of solving a series of disappearances, the police and
Matthews herself are led into the "Underground"--a
perfectly preserved city-under-a-city, hidden beneath
present-day Seattle.
Faced with the stalking that is wearing her down and
terrifying her, Matthews engages in a mental game of cat-
and-mouse, never knowing whom she can trust. She knows
that she is caught up in something that could kill her if
she can't solve the homicide. Crisscrossing Seattle,
diving below the streets to ancient tunnels, running for
her life, Matthews must unlock the psychological secrets
behind Mary-Ann's death, before she herself is buried
alongside her. Matthews' very survival will depend on her
skills at the art of deception.
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