Audra Ivers has the perfect life.

A brilliant writing career, fabulous friends, Michael, her adoring husband and now a baby on the way. But it is the night of her 32nd birthday that her life changes forever when she and Michael are brutally attacked in their home, leaving Audra battered and scared and Michael dead. It is her best friend Alan Heath that comes to her rescue, helping her recover and eventually helping her get her life back together.

Introduction to Robert McKeller

It is while working in Alan's restaurant that she is introduced to Robert McKeller. As Audra's and Robert's romance blooms, a killer takes hold of the city.

The killer's secret

It is while doing research on this killer that Audra comes to realize that she is this killer's muse, and the killer is choosing women like her. Audra, now afraid of losing her new life, plans on putting a stop to this killer, but at what cost?