What happens?... What happens when the fickle winds of fate deliver a serial killer to your doorstep? What happens when that serial killer lurks right beneath your nose, and you sense absolutely nothing? What happens when the serial killer earns your trust, assures you of his innocence, and lures you into investigating the very murders he has committed? What happens when the serial killer--keeps on killing--and with each victim--gets better and better at it? What happens when the very thing you are striving after is just too close to catch?... Thirty years ago... The Dejarnette Sanitarium in Staunton, Virginia, birthed a monster: Eleven-year-old James Martin was found outside his burning home after his mother had been brutally murdered. The authorities were uncertain if James was a fortuitous victim who had escaped or the perpetrator of the heinous crime. With no living relatives and the inability to speak, James was placed in the DeJarnette Sanitarium, an institution with a dark and dubious past, rumored to have dispensed inhumane treatment and Nazi-inspired, eugenics programs. James remained there until his escape at the age of seventeen. His whereabouts, to this day, are still unknown...
Modern day... Author Kevin Richards has written a fictional, best-selling book based on the very same escapee/potential killer --James Martin. Fortune had dropped the story in his lap: his wife Catherine, who studied the case at a university doctoral program with the esteemed forensic psychology professor Dr. Kem Hunter, brought it to his attention. Little did he know that his book would rise to the top of the best-seller list and inspire a new string of murders...
Who Done it? So many perspectives and so little time before the next murder... Enter a lurid and morbid world where the dark chamber of a disturbed serial killer's mind is researched, investigated, relived, and brought to the light of day. Catherine Richards (the wife of author Kevin Richards) teams up with Detective McAllister and Dr. Kem Hunter to investigate this new string of murders. Are these new crimes being perpetrated by the original James Martin? A copycat? Or unthinkably, the author? -Profiteering from the notoriety of the murders?
The Killer. The Detective. The Doctor. The Author. The Student... Everyone is a suspect, and no one is presumed innocent. The only truth is that all involved are striving after wind...
