You have to stop me from hurting anyone else. I dont want to do these horrible things. Help me before Im forced to do it again. And I will do it again because I have no choice. Ive never had a choice.In a busy shopping centre a little girl clutches a teddy bear clinging to it in the absence of her mother Katrina. Hours later Katrinas body is discovered in an abandoned building. ForampnbspDetective Kim Stone it looks like a quick functional kill. But Kims instincts tell her theres more to this senseless murder than meets the eye. What was the motive for killing a young mother out shopping with her childDays later a second victim is found in a local park her neck broken just like Katrinas and her sixyearold son missing.With her colleague Detective Stacey Wood working on another unsolved crime and a member of the team grieving the loss of a close relative Kim is struggling to make inroads on what is fast becoming a complex case. And when a handwritten letter from the killer lands on Kims desk addressed to her and pleading for help she knows time is running out to bring the little boy home alive.With the support of a handwriting analyst and profiler Kim and the team begin to get inside the mind of the killer and make a shocking discovery.Some of the victims have scratch marks on their wrists.But these are no random scratches. The killer is using them to communicate with someone. The question is... with whomAnd if Kim doesnt find them soon another innocent soul will die.