Charlie Leblanc is a distracted man barely holding it together. By day, he’s holding onto his job at the hospital by a thread. By night, he’s haunted by brutal flashbacks from his time in the Army—the friend he couldn’t save, the mistake he can’t forgive himself for. The zone-outs are getting worse. The guilt is suffocating.

When a psychotic patient rambles about an impending murder, Charlie brushes it off as delusions. Until a young woman’s mutilated body is discovered in an abandoned house… with a chilling detail that matches the patient’s warning exactly.

Suddenly, Charlie can’t let it go. As clue after clue confirms his suspicions, he becomes convinced a sadistic serial killer is hunting in plain sight. Driven by crushing guilt and a desperate need for redemption, Charlie launches his own obsessive investigation—crossing every line, risking his career, and stalking the shadows of Baton Rouge’s underbelly.

But the killer is smarter, more vicious, and closer than Charlie imagines. With every day that passes, the clock ticks louder. If Charlie can’t stop the monster in time, another innocent will die… and the weight of that failure might be too much for him.

In the darkness of guilt and blood, one question burns: Can a man haunted by his past sins truly save anyone—or is he already damned?

Dark, edgy, and relentlessly tense, this psychological crime thriller delivers pulse-pounding suspense with a powerful, buried message of faith, forgiveness, and redemption.