- A savvy detective struggles to solve sex mutilation crimes with the help of police psychologist.
- Stumped by brutal sex-mutilation crimes, Detective Chris Coxon turns to police psychologist Sarah Scott for help. As their relationship evolves, he must deal with Scott's complicated personal history, a wrenching experience that forces him to challenge his most basic assumptions about morality and justice. At last the murders are solved, but Coxon is forever changed by both the process and the unexpected answer.
- George Lehman hates women. He stalks them for fun, rapes them when he wants, and kills them. He's been at it a long time, outsmarting the cops, changing towns when they get too close. Now he is Dallas, starting everything over.
Sarah Scott has had enough. Rapists who get away with their crimes have pushed her over the edge. Now the Woman In Black is getting even-her way. She stalks them. One she castrates; another she kills and mutilates. She makes the punishment fit their crime. She thinks of it as revenge in-kind.
The two sets of sex crimes have Detective Chris Coxon and his partner Sam Kang baffled. Are there two criminals or one? Why the mutilations? How can there be no forensic evidence? When Coxon and Kang face one dead end after another, Coxon finally turns to Police Psychologist Sarah Scott for help.
As the police try to solve the mysteries, the relationship between Coxon and Scott evolves. But Coxon gets more than he bargained for; he must deal with Scott's complicated personal history. It is a wrenching experience that forces him to challenge his most basic assumptions about morality and justice. Things that once seemed simply black and white and easy to choose are now gray, with nuances he struggles to balance.
Meanwhile, Scott must choose between the revival of love, and emotion to which she thought she was now immune, and pursuit of revenge. But her choice is curtailed.
Just as Coxon is beginning to fall in love with Scott, he begins to unravel the solution to the sex crimes. The answer, involving Scott herself as well as George Lehman, presents him with a life-changing dilemma. In the end, he is unable to save either her or his love.
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