Sunshine Gage, blond, sweet, and gorgeous, was found murdered twenty-seven years ago in Black Point, Alabama, poisoned and mutilated. She was the girlfriend of Jake Montoya, a rugged eighteen-year-old kid headed to Tuscaloosa to play football for Alabama. Now another young, beautiful blond is found in the same location, lying in the salty muck of Cottonmouth Creek, a brackish tributary spilling into Mobile Bay. Lea lea Sloane, daughter of a wealthy Atlanta automotive dealer, was a second-year medical student at Vanderbilt. Lea Lea's external mutilation was a spot on copy of Sunshine's. But she wasn't poisoned. Blood oozed from every orifice, even from the sockets of her eyes, Her skin was splotchy purple from micro-hemorrhages. Her liver, kidneys, and brain had melted into goop.WHO WOULD KNOW HOW TO PERFORM THIS HEINOUS EXECUTION?FBI Agent Jake Montoya would do anything to find out.ANYTHING!