A high school taken hostage, a man who claims to be a god, and a darkly obsessive teen . . . When Vanessa Tan is tasked with delving into the background of a likely maniac in order to stop him from mutilating teenagers, she's prepared for a hopeless task and potential violence. What she isn't prepared for are the circumstances surrounding his rise to terror, mounting gruesome murders, and the increasing likelihood that someone, somewhere, is manipulating the very chronology of her life.