In the early 1990's, a serial killer is stalking young Chicago women. At the same time, the beautiful and brilliant young attorney Megan Lansdorf is in the fight of her legal life, suing a major hospital for medical malpractice. Despite her extraordinary skills, Megan's opponent, the handsome and arrogant attorney Frank Parks, was as resourceful and relentless as she. Megan is thrust into a world of terror where she can trust no one to save her. Not the baffled police. Not her too perfect lover. Not her legal adversary whose attraction she struggles to resist. And as she spends her days in a no holds barred courtroom war and her nights in spine chilling fear, Megan has onsly herself to rely on to defeat a mysterious and twisted killer who is after her life.