Murdoch never wanted to love, but once he learned to, someone stole his woman. Now—whoever they are—he wants to make them pay.

A young woman has just been brutally murdered by a serial killer. Her father is the supreme crime lord in London, and he wants Murdoch to find that killer. But Murdoch has promised Maria he is done with his old life. Then his best friend's niece is killed in the same horrific way, and he knows the killings are a message—for him. But from who? Someone is out to get him—and the woman he loves.

His search leads him into the darkest reaches of the serial killer's mind. But when he thinks he has his man, things take an even more sinister twist. Suddenly, he is in a desperate chase across Spain and into Morocco and Algeria. The prize is Maria's life, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Because what he finds there is too horrific to believe.