Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent
Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach
with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful,
carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon’s desperate
attempts, he loses her, and becomes obsessed with
discovering why. He hires detective Lydia Marks to uncover
the secrets of this stranger’s life, and what they learn
propels them into a terrifying world of sinister secrets
and deadly hatreds. Targeting Mallon is the master hunter
Parish, a man with an expert understanding of evil, who
preys on rich people’s desires for dominance and revenge.
Mallon is drawn into a lethal struggle with this deadly
adversary–and then another, and another, and another.