Do I fear for me… or is it me that I fear? A new town. A chance to start over. Resurrect a marriage. Yet, nothing goes to plan. Invasive thoughts distort Charlotte’s reasoning. Inner voices draw her toward infidelity and violence. Is this her true self—addicted to destructive behavior? Is she tumbling into madness? Or have her inner demons awakened a far greater evil? As local police are confronted by a series of brutal murders, they are baffled, but as the body count rises, not everyone in town is surprised. For centuries, the area has been plagued by mass murder, and the key lies within a journal written by a survivor of an ill-fated convict ship and among the scrolls of ancient Mesopotamian texts. When evidence implicating Charlotte mounts, husband Sam begins a frantic search to find the one thing that can save his wife before the police close in, and she is lost forever.