Kate Marbury is a talented watercolorist - but it's practically impossible to earn a living that way. So she's become a police sketch artist and detective, and is surprised to discover that she truly enjoys the work.Now Kate's part of a special task force trying to catch a serial rapist. The guy's careful, and he's smart - he starts his assaults when his victims are asleep, and leaves almost no physical evidence.Kate feels a special affinity for the rapist's latest victim, Janet. Though devastated by the rape, Janet is determined to do whatever she can to help the police catch the attacker. She eagerly helps Kate refine her sketches of the rapist, and the two women quickly become close friends, bound by mutual respect.In his attack of Janet, the rapist discovered the "pleasure" of using a knife to heighten his victim's fear. The next time he strikes, he mutilates and murders the woman after raping her. Kate and the other investigating officers feel a renewed urgency, in part due to new pressure from the public and politicians, to catch him before he kills again.What no one knows is that Kate Marbury is next on the madman's list of targets. He has spent weeks following her and memorizing her routine. Read Less