The darker side

"As a mother, Smoky knows the pain of losing a child - it nearly killed her once before. As a cop with her own twisted past, she takes every murder personally, which is both her greatest strength and her only weakness. Brilliant, merciless, righteous, the killer Smoky is hunting this time is on his own personal mission, whose cost in innocent human lives he's only beginning to collect. For in his eyes no one is innocent; everyone harbors a secret sin, including Smoky Barrett." "Soon Smoky will have to confront a flawless killer who knows her flaws with murderous intimacy."--BOOK JACKET.