For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the
outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact
was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her
entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement,
and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.
After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left
with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to
interpret the body language of both the living and the dead.
Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she
resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective
Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of
his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the
loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no
choice: they must work together to catch the madman before
he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.