A decaying body of an eight-year-old girl is found near a sand dune on the Navarre-Pensacola Beach road. The law enforcement officers soon discover she was actually the second victim and the terror begins in Northwest Florida. Although every precaution is taken by parents and school officials, the killings continue. There is fear in the streets, in the schools, in the playgrounds and in every home. The Sheriff departments of four counties, the FDLE and the FBI seem powerless to stop it. FBI agent Jodie Murphy, who has a law degree and had been working in the office her first six months is given her on her first street case and she teams up with her father’s ex partner, ex homicide detective Joe Carlucci, who wrote the book on catching serial killers and they try to track down and stop The Ghost from his murderous rampage.