In the sterile white corridors of a mental ward - and the unexplored passages of the mind - unfolds a novel of heart-clutching terror, with a cast of characters caught inextricably in its lurking mystery:

Dan Bollinger - Ex-Vietnam vet drifting on a marijuana cloud. Women came to his wilderness cabin, one after another, and never left. He insisted he never killed them - until terrifying mental images made him realize, with startled horror, that he knew the burial sites of each girl, though their deaths remained shrouded in mystery!

Elizabeth Bodac - Charmed and challenged by Dan's enigmatic, elusive personality and the riddle locked in his brain, she vowed to discover Dan's secret - and save him. But was she trying to save a madman, a murderer, or both?

Debra Bollinger - Dan's twin sister, a brooding eccentric consumed by a long-standing psychic love for her brother - and a smoldering passion for him that yet threatened to erupt.

Dr. Jeffrey Kossuth - Head of the mental hospital, he swore Dan was the killer even as he began to write Dan's "exclusive" story to sell to the highest bidder. Was he treating a patient, or protecting an investment?

With explosive force and pulsing tension, Charles W. Runyon has created a novel combing the dark mysteries of the mind and the breathless excitement of a first-rate thriller.