A young woman loses her family, her friends, almost anyone who has ever even done her a kindness to a maniacal serial killer. It\`s as if every trace of human contact is being wiped out of her life. Her terrifying case is handed to a woman who has had so much of her own happiness snatched away from her: Smoky Barrett, the extraordinary heroine of Mcfadyen\`s stunning debut SHADOW MAN. Now caring for her murdered friend\`s mute daughter, Smoky must decide whether or not she can rise to one more fiendish challenge...