Crime writer Harrison Weaver doesn't believe in coincidences-only messages that may not be decipherable at first. That's his feeling when, as he prepares to go kayaking at Buffalo City near the Outer Banks, he discovers the body of a nude young female, hogtied and very dead. The stark scene is especially eerie to him because a month earlier he had been assigned to write about the murder of another young woman who was found nude and hogtied in the back seat of her car in the mountains of North Carolina-four hundred miles away from Weaver's home at the coastal Outer Banks area. As Weaver and...

Following a lead from a reporter, crime writer Harrison Weaver finds a man and woman executed in the Outer Banks' Nags Head Woods, their wrists tied to one another. This bizarre slaying, however, is only the start of other killings that draw Weaver and SBI Agent Ballsford Twiddy into an investigation that proves as frustrating as it is deadly, and involves a puzzling connection to a very unlikely place-a church. As efforts to nab the killer before he fulfills his promise that there will be others, Weaver finds himself and two of his friends facing a deranged murder, and Weaver must act fast...