"The sudden illumination of his hideous face, now so close to hers, made her gasp. His head was at such an angle that she could see beneath the white, bony ledge of his broken eyebrow deep into the empty socket of his left eye; and in the bottom of the hole she thought she saw something move. Shadows. Let it be shadows, she prayed." Ginny Darbonne, owner of a dance school in a small south Louisiana town, has settled into a sublime life revolving around a few special people: her father; her best friend, brash and explosive Annie Ruiz; and her boyfriend, Alex Babin, a professional baseball player. That is about to change forever. Following a grisly discovery made deep in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin during a fishing trip, Ginny descends into a nightmare world of kidnapping, murder, deception and mind-numbing surprises. Terrorized by a one-eyed killer, John Stark, and an unknown accomplice, the normally self confident and resourceful woman must run for her life. Finally, an unsettling encounter with a grieving, young widow forces her to look deep within herself for desperate solutions to her dilemma. No longer a victim, and despite shattering losses, she must take matters into her own hands if she is to rise from the darkness enveloping her.