Every parent’s nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her child, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom at night time. The police suspect that the girl is merely another moody teenage runaway, angry over abandoning her school and friends because her family members is moving. But Lindsay’s recent eerie state – that somebody invaded her room when the home was opened up to prospective customers – drives Kara to fear the worst: a nameless, faceless stalker provides strolled the halls of her house browsing about Perfect Nightmare of more than a location to live. Patrick Shields identifies Kara’s pain – and carries plenty of his very own since he dropped his wife and two children in a damaging house open fire. But a lot more than grief pulls Patrick and Kara together. He, as well, senses the hands of a malevolent stranger with this tragedy. So that as more people go missing from houses on the market, Patrick’s suspicion, like Kara’s, blooms into horrified certainty. Someone can be trolling this tranquil community – undetected and undeterred – harvesting victims for a purpose no sane brain can fathom. Somebody Kara and Patrick, by itself and desperate, are determined to unmask. Someone who is nonetheless watching, plotting, keeping a demented journal of unspeakable deeds . and waiting around until the time is normally ripe for another fateful go to.