It was at this moment that Martha had two competing thoughts. One, thatshe'd married a nice man. And, two, that he was a complete and utter strangerto her.Afteran unexpected, whirlwind romance, quiet librarian Martha married Alan. Butwhen she thinks she sees his mask slip, she starts to fear that theconferences he travels the country to attend might be a cover for somethingfar more sinister.Asshe secretly starts to map his movements she unearths a string of dead women,but could these two things really be linked? Unsure of her own instincts,Martha turns to an old friend, Lily Kintner, who once helped her escape atoxic relationship in grad school. But what Martha doesn't know is that Lilyhas a dark side of her own . . .