<b>Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it....<br></b><br>Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals — and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants.<br><br>Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims' minds. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent ... and she isn't telling.<br><br>But her secret may be exposed when a madman seizes Seattle in his terrifying grip. He abducts women and blinds them, leaving them barely alive.<br><br>The police have one hope: the lone victim who might recover her sight. But they don't know that Maggie has her own dark connection to the monster — an eerie link that may stretch back to a string of unsolved murders.<br><br>To stop the escalating terror, Maggie will have to push her abilities to the breaking point — even if it means confronting a predator whose powers seem to have no bounds....