Ten years after a devastating unsolved crime, a young artist finds her life once again disrupted by the same forces that sought to victimize her a decade earlier, a situation that prompts her to team up with reporter Britt Montero to solve the mystery.

While attempting an arrest, a sheriff is slain by an enigmatic young woman who promptly vanishes into the northern Florida landscape. As the story comes over the wire, reporter Britt Montero is intrigued. Few copkillers escape so easily. The murders continue. Men are lured into sex by the same woman, their lifeless bodies dumped half-naked in ditches, woodlands and along the road, their cars, cash, and valuables gone. The murderer, who leaves lipstick...