Detective Jake Wilson is haunted in his dreams by the losses in his past and the prospect of more in his future. When a psychopathic serial killer unleashed his rage on the city, Jake's phobia of losing things he once protected pushes him to stop the madman, but also pushes him into the path of he eerily beautiful witness, Alice Cooper, who is also plagued with troubling dreams. With the help of Alice and his best friend, Carve the Medical Examiner, Jake engages the killer in a deadly game tainted with madness and revenge. The fate of everything Jake cares about hangs in the balance of this case. One small slip and everything is gone. It is a great burden, after all, Jake is only human.