Homicide police detective, single mother of a teenage daughter, and lover to her partner Jim Kissick, Nan Vining wishes that life was a little more serene, more like it is at Georgia Berryhill\'s Malibu Canyon compound--or like it\'s supposed to be there, anyway....

So Cal police detective Nina Vining is still haunted by the horrifying attack she survived nearly two years earlier, and \"The Bad Man\" (aka T.B. Mann) hasn\'t given up his obsession with her. In order to shake him for good, Vining might just have to have one last face-off....

The crime scene was like something out of a horror movie. Billboard tycoon Oliver Mercer has been brutally slain in his home in the Pasadena hills, joined in death by his long-legged trophy girlfriend–both of their bodies displayed in a chilling tableau....