<p>The youngest lawyer ever to grab the helm of Seattle's most prominent law firm Gus Wheatley has found success-as well as money power and prestige. He thinks nothing can interfere with his meteoric rise to the top. Until his wife Beth vanishes.</p><p>Beth's disappearance coincides with a series of brutal murders the FBI dubs the 'bookend killings.' They think Beth is the killer's latest victim . . . or his willing accomplice. But Gus knows his wife would never ally herself with a cold-blooded killer. The further he searches however the more he discovers that Beth isn't the woman he thought he knew.</p><p>Beth may be alive. She may or may not be innocent. She may have come up against evil far more reaching than a serial killer. And for Gus and his family that evil is much too close to home.</p>