Men are dying unexpectedly in Charlotte, North Carolina– all victims of bizarre accidents. No one will call these deaths murder.

No one except small–town cop Melanie May. She sees the pattern: a serial killer targeting men who have slipped through the fingers of justice. Alone with her awful certainty, Melanie risks her career to convince Connor Parks, a troubled FBI profiler, that she' s right.

Suddenly Melanie is in the limelight, lauded for uncovering the Dark Angel. But her involvement makes her a target. For as she and Connor study the victims, their deaths, the signature the murderer leaves at every scene, Melanie comes face–to–face with the terrible truth. The profile Connor' s created fits someone in her own life...a profile of a cunning killer, one without remorse and bent on vengeance.