It is not uncommon for Detective Kim Stone to be confronted with brutal murder cases, but this time there is something different. The victim is Dr. Gordon Cordell, a man with a dark past who was involved in a previous investigation, and Kim keeps wondering who might have wanted him dead. A strange sense of unease accompanies her as she takes her first steps back into the victim's life. When Cordell's son falls into a coma following a dramatic accident and, a few days later, the body of a woman who died under suspicious circumstances is found, Kim cannot help but speculate on a connection between the victims. All clues seem to point towards Russells Hall, the hospital where Gordon Cordell worked, over which hovers a dark and impenetrable web of secrets and code of silence. Should Detective Stone's suspicions prove correct, waiting for her could be the most ruthless killer she has ever encountered.