BJ Gleeson, a divorced family man, former ball player, and teacher, has now found himself in the investigative arena of serial killers. After solving a major string of bizarre murders in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, he now stumbles over another brutal crime while attnding a writers' conference in New Orleans. Here, he has found a dead young woman in the swamps of New Orleans just after the disastrous arrival of Hurricane Katrina.