On one of the city’s hottest nights, NY Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is delivered to Central Park—and into a hellish brand-new investigation. The sufferer is found around the rocks, right above the still, dark water of The Lake in Central Park. Around her throat is usually a single reddish ribbon. Her hands are posed, as though in prayer. But it is the eyes—removed with such accuracy, as if carried out by the cautious hand of the surgeon—which have Dallas most alarmed.As more bodies arrive, each using the same defining marks, Eve is frantic for answers. Against her intuition, she allows help from a psychic who presents one vision after another—each with shockingly accurate details of the murders. So when partner and friend Peabody is usually badly wounded after escaping an assault, the stakes are raised. Are the eyes symbolic? A twisted spiritual ritual? A souvenir? With help from her husband, Roarke, Dallas must find out the killer’s inspiration before another eyesight becomes another nightmare….