Two skeletons are found with arms wrapped in an infinite embrace, discovered at the bottom of the sea.

The corpses of a young couple are discovered in a crabbing cage off the coast of Alaska. Someone is murdering young married couples, and his taunting notes to the police call his next shot. He promises to next kill Nome's sweethearts-Priscilla Porter and Chief Baker.

With her sister and brother-in-law threatened, FBI Agent Ella Porter is serving out her banishment in the small, gold-mining town, and is now faced with enemies from every direction. A tycoon of a father who wants her dead. An internal investigation that wants her job. And now a murderer striking the shores of the small, wilderness town she once called her home.

Against this tidal wave of opposition, she's forced to use every ounce of cunning and training to outwit and outlast. And through it all, she's determined to bring this new, demented murderer to shore.