Miriam Black lives a dark and dangerous life. As this book opens, she is giving normal a try but its not going well. Miriam is living in a rundown trailer in a rundown trailer park while working a dreary retail job in a rundown store. And this is as good as things get for our heroine. Miriam's gift (or curse) is the ability to see the moment of a person's death if she touches their skin. Even wearing gloves won't spare her from horrific visions and hallucinations. Miriam has recently decided to use her ability to try to change fate and save the innocents. That might mean killing the guilty but the piper must be paid. In this book, Miriam is hunting a serial killer who kidnaps, tortures and murders teenage girls. This puts her in many a perilous situation and I lost count of how many times she herself is beaten and abused by sadistic attackers. If one thing is certain, its that normal is not in the cards for Miriam Black.