Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life's work--studying the disturbing psychopathy of some of the world's most vicious serial killers. Now a leading psychiatrist at Hanover House in a small Alaskan town, she tries to believe the past will never come back to haunt her--until a woman goes missing from a cabin nearby, and every clue points to the man who once brutalized her...