When fresh-faced college student Chelsea Hart is found murdered in East River Park, her wavy blond hair brutally hacked off, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case--and finds herself under the watchful eye of a psychopath eager to add the prideful young female detective to his list of victims.

While investigating the suicide of 16-year-old Julia Whitmire, whose famous parents believe that she was murdered, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, drawn into Julia's inner circle, discovers that Julie was engaged in a dangerous game of cyberbullying against an unlikely victim.

"She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind - or been running...