Firefighter Risa Caldwell decides one day to change her path on her morning jog through the woods. It may be the biggest mistake she’s ever made. When she falls and twists her ankle, she curses, until she sees she’s not stumbled over a tree root but a dead body. The body is that of local missing child Kaylee Shulte, and even to Risa’s untrained eye, the scene speaks of ritual and the work of a serial killer. FBI agent Ethan Eames is afraid he’s been put out to pasture in Dark Falls for some unknown reason. There’s no FBI branch office here, and he’s been simply told to “work with local law enforcement.” So when Risa finds the dead body, the case falls directly into his lap. To make things more difficult for him, so does Risa. They can’t get entangled. He’s the agent on the case and she’s his only witness. It’s clear this isn’t the killer’s first time, but they can’t find another matching case. When at last something breaks, they discover a string of like murders going back over 200 years. If a killer operated for that long, they’d have to be immortal, wouldn’t they? The only thing that makes sense to Ethan is Risa. And when it’s clear the killer will remove her to shut her up, the case becomes personal. Can he save her before it’s too late?
