Multiple young women have gone missing across the Outer Banks of North Carolina. When their bodies reappear with flowers tattooed over every inch, the FBI’s Strange Crimes Unit is called in. And this case is personal for Tiberius Granger as it collides with his dark and painful past growing up in a religious cult, bringing him back to his home state and to the doorstep of Bexley Hemmingway—the only woman he’s ever loved and who he believed died 17 years ago. Her younger sister, Ahnah, has gone missing and Ty suspects this serial killer is to blame. But to find Ahnah and the other missing women, he'll have to deal with everything seeing Bexley again brings up. When a member of the SCU’s team is brutally murdered, Ty realizes this cunning killer has been several chilling steps ahead, orchestrating his every move from the very start.