SMOKY BARRETT HAS HAD NIGHTMARES EVER SINCE IT HAPPENED.

Nightmares that haunt her every sleeping hour, nightmares that leave her shivering and alone. An agent on the FBI's serial murder and child abduction team, Smoky is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind - but nothing could have prepared her for the day her husband and young daughter were slaughtered before her eyes.

Most people would run - run away from work, run away from life, run away from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence. But Smoky doesn't know how to run - and when the job that has defined her life comes calling once again with the news that her best friend from high school has been brutally murdered, she finds Herself back in the firing line, chasing a hidden killer who will stop at nothing to confront her.

Megan Dodds is well known for her film and television work which includes Spooks, Poirot and Love in a Cold Climate. She recently appeared in Ben Elton's West End hit Popcorn.