As her senses fill with the rotten stink of death, she looks down at the blood dripping from the knife in her shaking hands.
"Oh god, what have I done?" echoes the single thought.
The dreams are starting again. And twenty-six-year-old Melanie Morris should be used to them by now. As the loner "girl who dreams murders" and helps authorities stop or solve them through her psychically inspired paintings, she has lots of experience.
But this dream is different. Why does she feel sorry for the murderer?
Working alongside Brody Carter-a longtime friend and the youngest ever Sheriff of Arrow Springs, Kansas, who makes her heart pound and parts of her libido that have never been tested dance in time to the thumping-they follow the dream clues, hoping to find the killer before another life is lost and Mel is left with more blood on her conscience. But the deeper Mel gets into this dream sequence, the more its twists and turns bring up Mel's tragic past-bringing her worst fear to the forefront. The fear that one day a murderer she dreams about will come after her.