Alex Connor is running away from life. After his wife's death, he wanted nothing except oblivion. Only his friend Sarah kept him going. Now she's been murdered, and though the police have the killer, they don't have her body. The gruesome search to find her will drag Alex back into the land of the living - and the dead. Losing one woman almost destroyed him. Losing another might just save him.

Paul Kearney is a policeman. It's his job to look death in the eye - however sinister a form it takes. But what happens when you look too closely? As her tracks a killer who's taking women and slowly draining them of blood, Kearney gets drawn into a world of dark desires that people will go to great lengths to hide.

Wound together by their search, if they're to save themselves and the people they love, Alex and Kearney will need to go to a place where normal rules don't apply, where people trade murder memorabilia, a place where life is only the first thing you lose...