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To catch a copycat, the police turn to the city’s top criminal psychologist. They have no idea he’s the killer they’re trying to find. Story Overview A brilliant professor of criminal psychology has spent years building a flawlessly ordinary life. To his university students and the local police, he is a calm, respected expert frequently called in to profile violent offenders. To the rest of the world, his horrifying past as an uncaught serial killer is long dead and buried. That quiet existence shatters the morning Detective Coldwell and her eagle-eyed partner, Reagan, knock on his door. They need his expertise on a gruesome new case. But when Coldwell slides a crime scene photograph across his kitchen table, his world stops. The staging. The precise angle of the victim’s limbs. The crushed dried lavender beneath the fingers a signature detail never made public, recorded only in a private journal he buried deep in the woods a decade ago. Detective Coldwell believes the original killer has come out of hibernation. What she doesn't realize is that the real killer is sitting three feet away in a soft wool sweater and someone else has stolen his legacy. With Reagan watching his every micro expression and a murderer wearing his skin, he is forced into a high-stakes double game. To protect the innocent life he built, he must join the police in hunting down the copycat and eliminate the pretender before they destroy his secret forever.