Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues, & the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal, but for Sara & police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow, & a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara, the violence strikes far too close to home even as Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer
