 
Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff  unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy  Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The  man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react .  . . and forever pay the consequences.
 Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began  for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years  ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse.  Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon,  blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses  that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. 
 Alone . . . a madman  survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time  for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible,  anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them  together is a moment of violence—but what connects them is a passion far deeper and  much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil  that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death  coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.