Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is called in to help track down a merciless killer. But the killer knows her all too well: he knows all about her murdered daughter whose body has never been found. He knows that she will insist on identifying the nine skeletons unearthed on a bluff near Georgia's Talladega Falls - unable to resist the temptation of believing that one of those skeletons might her daughter's. But that is only the beginning of the killer's sadistic game. Now Eve Duncan must match wits with the most dangerous of psychopaths. A man for whom life and death is no more than a game. A killing game. And he won't stop playing until he's got the prize he most wants: Eve's life.