A cunning psychopath has found a serial killer's paradise in an isolated patch of Oregon ... a religious commune, a cult. His youthful victims are never even missed ... until a lawyer comes looking for one of them. And Rob Swift comes home. Once this hamlet's brightest star, Swift is a cop now--disillusioned anxious, and insecure--on the brink of losing his job. A dismembered corpse is discovered. Not a trace of evidence. No apparent motive. Small town politics and vested interests conspire to keep murder under wraps--to shield the cult from outside exposure. But the killings continue ... and Swift is named a suspect. Has he been set up? ... Again?