Homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware investigate the murders of Gavin Quick, a man with a troubled past, and an unidentified woman, found dead in a car in a secluded spot, and discover greed, corruption, and betrayal.
Lucy Lowell, a patient of psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware, has been having a recurring nightmare ever since she was a juror at the trial of a serial killer. Alex suspects that it is the repressed childhood memory of a real murder.
Alex Delaware accepts a job organizing the notes of scientist Bill Moreland, thinking he is getting an easy, four-month job on a tropical island, but Moreland's gruesome case files provide clues to a nagging mystery Alex feels he cannot ignore.
