The year is 2005. Harry Potter and Star Wars dominate the box office, Hurricane Katrina wipes out New Orleans, and Carrie Underwood wins American Idol.

At thirty-years-old, Officer Stackhouse is the oldest in her Police academy graduating class and hellbent on proving herself. She responds to a call in Creepy Hollow, where a teenager has run away, a commonplace incident.

But there's nothing commonplace about what Stackhouse finds when she begins digging.

A serial killer is at work and has been for years, undetected until now. Even faced with the evidence, Stackhouse's supervisors are reluctant to believe. The case soon becomes personal, however, when the killer's attention shifts to her. If Stackhouse wants to survive her first year, she'll have to prove there's nothing soft about a girl with a badge...