It's the case John Jordan doesn't talk about.
The Stone Cold Killer still haunts his nightmares.
The year is 1988-the hundredth anniversary of the Jack the Ripper murders-and a young John Jordan has just landed his first job in law enforcement.
Then young women begin disappearing around Stone Mountain.
As John puts the clues together, a terrifying pattern emerges. Someone is hunting women. Someone methodical, sadistic, and ritualistic.
And he is far from finished.
The small town of Stone Mountain has never faced a killer like this. Neither has its police department.
Neither has John.
This is John Jordan before the seasoned detective and prison chaplain-young, inexperienced, and about to encounter the kind of evil that will shape the rest of his life.
The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the investigation becomes, until John's first official case threatens to become his last.
Years later, the Stone Cold Killer still lives in his nightmares.
John Jordan is hunting his first serial killer. But before the case is over, he may discover that the killer is hunting him.