Emily Ryan sought to nurse her broken heart by assisting her cousin, a private investigator temporarily confined to a wheelchair. Volunteering to accept a missing person's case, she found herself falling for an enigmatic fugitive, also a face from her past. The case revealed an unresolved, vicious murder, over fifteen-years-old, that grew back like an ugly weed. After five suspicious deaths and equally lethal fires, Emily quickly learned the tools of her cousin's trade to evade the clutches of a cunning killer. When her family is targeted as the next victims and her love kidnaped, Emily stops running and becomes the hunter. Armed with little more than guts, intuition and a few interesting gadgets, she braves a violent tempest and walks into the depths of hell.