One week. Three towns. Three people. Each with surgical scissors protruding from their right arm pits. Remove the weapon, immediate death. Leave it in, opportunity – at least for a while – for some medical care. Someone had deliberate intentions. Drew McLogan, ex-TV producer with more than enough problems of his own, gets pulled into one of the cases. His presence – and questions – shake up a small New Jersey town where one of the attacks took place. Town officials, business executives, the clergy and some questionable characters wish he'd go away. He would, except for the promise he made to his best friend to get involved, and the fact his new anger is helping him resolve his old anger. That, and fact that he's met someone, and Laurel Crandall is special.