Joanna Warren is a children's book author whose life unravels when a childhood friend is brutally murdered by the vicious Deep Woods Killer, a serial murderer preying upon successful career women. As Joanna is drawn deeper in a tangled web of violence and deceit, she becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly game between the elusive killer and Paul Miller, an eerie private investigator with his own motives for solving the case.<ref name="latimes"></ref>