Detective Jackson investigates a social worker's brutal murder. Evidence points to a serial rapist. When the victim's lover disappears, Jackson knows that there is more to the murder and that he must discover the truth before time runs out for anyone else.

"Outside a local bar, a man is drugged and slashed to death with a scalpel. Inside a local bank, a woman suffers a fatal heart attack after learning her life savings have been plundered. The crimes are as different as the night and day they occur. The vicious murder is a case for Eugene's Violent Crimes Division, but the more Detective Wade Jackson and his homicide team probe into the death of Rafel Mazari -- an Iraq War veteran with disturbing secrets...