There's a killer at large, and a pregnant woman has gone missing. Each new clue brings Detective Kerri Devlin closer to the killer and the missing woman, who starts looking more like a suspect than a victim.

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...

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...

Receiving photos of three unknown women by one of the world's most sadistic serial murderer, Deputy Chief Jess Harris also discovers a clue to a long-unsolved case involving childhood disappearances in Birmingham and begins to wonder if the two killers may be related.

"When her beloved high school teacher appears on her doorstep, Deputy Chief Jess Harris is flooded with fond memories--until the woman says she's about to be charged with murder. Called to the scene of the crime, Jess learns the victim of the bizarre and brutal slaying was a member of Birmingham's famed "Five." Twelve years ago, the Five were rich, popular high school seniors who threw one wild last party. Two social outcasts were invited to play...