Detective Darby McCormick investigates brutal murders of college students. The girls had never met each other, yet their deaths match in every detail: a mysterious abduction, a long—lasting for several months—stay in an unknown place, and it seems the conditions there were quite comfortable, followed by a ruthless shot in the head…
Who did it—was it a serial maniac-murderer, or an exalted believer? Or maybe the secret is hidden in the distant past? And what punishment does the criminal deserve?