Ellis Norman is an FBI agent who has garnered many enemies in the criminal world. When a series of murders arises in the vicinity of Portsmouth, she discovers there's a pattern of victims chosen to die at the same time and same place, and her name is next on the list. Away from the limelight, Ellis finds herself compelled to make a choice if she wants to survive: to trust her friend, who is under investigation by the police intelligence service, or to trust her boyfriend, whom she's beginning to truly suspect as the real serial killer in town.