Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is called in to help track down a merciless killer. But the killer knows her all too well: he knows all about her murdered daughter whose body has never been found. He knows that she will insist on identifying the nine skeletons unearthed in Georgia - unable to resist the temptation of believing that one of those skeletons might her daughter's. But that is only the beginning of the killer s sadistic game. Now Eve Duncan must match wits with the most dangerous of psychopaths. A man for whom life and death is no more than a game. A killing game. And he won t stop playing until he s got the prize he most wants: Eve s life.