Against the sultry backdrop of New Orleans, Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya take on their first case together in #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson's chilling novel of a serial killer's obsessive vengeance . . .

As host of New Orleans's radio talk show Midnight Confessions, Dr. Samantha Leeds is a trusted confidante to all kinds of troubled souls. But the call that comes to her own home one night is different-menacing, personal . . .

Then the killings start . . . one victim after another found strangled. Montoya, eager to make his name with the NOPD, teams up with Bentz, whose hard-won experience tells him there's a connection to Sam. But many more must die before the killer, calling himself Father John, is ready for his ultimate target. For Bentz and Montoya know with chilling certainty that Father John is drawing nearer, preparing to make Sam confess her sins-before he delivers his final judgment . . .