Once the FBI's hottest serial killer hunter, Smoky Barrett is left scarred in body and mind following a brutal encounter with a psychotic killer, and is on the verge of suicide when she is confronted by an all new evil called the Shadow Man.

"A lie, a long-ago affair, a dark desire--everyone has secrets they take to the grave. No one knew that better than FBI special agent Smoky Barrett. But what secret was a very private young woman keeping that led to her very public murder? And what kind of killer was so driven and so daring that he'd take her life on a commercial airliner thirty thousand feet in midair.