Sorority president Pamela Schumacher is startled awake at 3 a.m. and is shocked to encounter a scene of implausible violence - two of her friends dead, and two others maimed. Thrust into a terrifying mystery, Pamela becomes entangled in a crime that will captivate public interest for more than four decades…

Tina Cannon thinks she has finally found peace after years of hardship when Ruth, her best friend, suddenly goes missing from Lake Sammamish State Park on a beautiful summer’s day. Now Tina has devoted herself to finding out what happened to her.

When she hears about the tragedy at a college in Tallahassee, she knows it’s the man responsible for Ruth’s disappearance. Determined to make him answer for what he did to Ruth, she travels to Florida on a collision course with Pamela, and one last impending tragedy.