"I heard a heavy clunk as she set the phone down on the table. Then I heard footsteps, moving away. I screamed her name but I knew she couldn’t hear me… I didn’t know what to do. Should I hang up and call her again? It wouldn’t work, she hadn’t set the phone back on the cradle. I screamed again, ‘DON’T OPEN IT. DON’T OPEN THE DOOR – ‘" As she walks home from work, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to die. Billy Rucker had known her briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo’s distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder. Beginning his tentative enquiries, things soon move horrifically close to home. A friend of Billy’s is killed, and in the throes of what seems to be a crazy nightmare, Billy must bury his grief and tackle his most dangerous investigation yet. But something else is frightening Billy – are these murders horrible coincidences, or is he somehow the connection between them? And if this is the case, will he be the next target, or is the killer working to a far greater plan: a ceaseless vendetta that will send Billy’s world spinning irrevocably out of control…