The suspense of this novel derives from the convergence of three sets of characters and events. The pace of the story quickens when Lakewood Detective Darnell Wilson suggests a connection between the murders of three women. Though the killings are years apart, the result is always the same. In each case, a woman has been strangled, and left in Edgewater Park.

If Wilson is correct, a Lakewood resident will soon be found dead in the trunk of her car just inside the Cleveland city limits. While sympathetic, his supervisor is caught in the financial reality that the precinct's budget is to investigate crimes, not to anticipate them. At the same time, they cannot help but believe that on September 10th the Cleveland police can stake out a position to catch a killer and solve some open cases. Of course, the cost of this solution is the death of another woman.

Davis McGowan has come out of retirement to serve a downtown church. This temporary assignment means that he will be commuting from Huron, Ohio to Cleveland’s Public Square. Little does he know that he will cross paths with a serial killer.