There's a killer on the loose in the small town of Blackwell Falls, but no one has been aware of it. At least not yet. The police have been chalking up the missing people as runaways and the deaths as accidents or animal attacks since it first began two years ago. Someone though has been leaving clues in hopes that someone will find them and stop the killer. Can Alex Barsotti, a college student returning home after being away for a year, and her friends figure out who the killer is before its too late? Who is next on the killer's long list of victims. Who of the people Alex has known all her life be doing such horrible things? Or is it someone that no one knows at all?