He's been sinking them for years, but now the coffins of his victims are rising from the bayou...A rotted coffin was pulled from the river, then a second, and a third. Search teams now work around the clock pulling pinewood tombs from the murky waters of the Louisiana delta. And missing women from the last year are at the center of a state-wide manhunt for the man who buried them alive.In the same waterways where she and her sister were taken, former stage magician and hypnotist Sophie Quinn joins forces with the FBI to uncover who is taking these women and if any can still be saved. But in these dark waterways, the ghosts of Sophie's past are restless—and the man who took everything from her may yet take more.

There is no greater pain than love and loss...Three women are found dead in their homes, their nights of romance ended in violence. But as the men in their lives arrive one by one to confess the killings, FBI consultant Sophie Quinn suspects there's more to these eerily similar murders than meets the eye.With her own father hospitalized and the final threads of family bonds stretched precariously thin, Sophie must choose between finding the man who took her sister from her and finding the truth behind this new violence.And with no time to lose, Sophie faces a painful choice and the true extent of her obsessions.