When Jess Harris moved back to her Alabama hometown, she thought she'd left her past behind her. But the blood bath the new Major Crimes deputy chief finds at a murder scene is beyond even the savagery of Eric Spears, the serial killer who now haunts Jess's life with terrifying text messages. Amid eerie echoes of the Charles Manson massacre, Jess investigates the dismemberment of a cop's wife while her baby lay sleeping down the hall.
The discovery...

Special Agent Jess Harris travels to Birmingham Alabama to advise on a case of four missing young women. The case forces Jess to confront all the reasons she put her hometown and her first love, Police Chief Dan Burnett, behind her all those years ago.

When Special Agent Jess Harris' attempts to catch a serial killer, known as the Player, leads to the deaths of several of her acquaintances, she must decide if she is going to leave town and abandon her quest to catch him.

Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her.

Nearly two decades with the Bureau and Jess Harris took a rookie risk. Serial killer Eric Spears wasn't the only one obsessed. Jess's need to stop him prompted her to break the rules, ultimately ending her career. She landed back in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, as a deputy chief assigned to the new Special Problems Unit, a hybrid major crime division. There was just one problem: Eric Spears had followed her. There's only one way to end this--someone...

The first victim disappeared near Alabama Police Detective Adeline Cooper's hometown in Mississippi - and she won't be the last. Believing she is the killer's ultimate target, Adeline decides to go back to work side-by-side with a sheriff she once loved. Now she will meet face-to-face the criminals she brought down - and fight the obsessed killer who craves her death.