A phone call from up high interrupts Eve's plans to have a lazy day with Roarke: The teenage daughter of Captain Jonah McMasters, head of the NYPD drug squad, has been found raped and strangled.

A terrifying video of Deena, bloody and beaten beyond recognition, hints at a link to a criminal in McMasters's own past, but searching through his cases leads Eve nowhere - until another rape-murder, and another video, reveals the killer's deadly intent: merciless retribution in the cruellest way possible.

Racing against the clock, Eve and her team must work fast to identify the next victim of a killer who will stop at nothing ...