four years ago jessica sloan drove out to a backwoods town to execute the rapist stashed in the trunk of her car she barely made it out of hopkins bend alive and emerged changed forever by the ordeal now shes freshly discharged from the military and on the run after being framed for a murder she didnt commit running out of optionsand with an assassin hot on her trailshe heads again for hopkins bend now a deserted ghost town but things are not as they seem in hopkins bend and jessica soon finds herself plunged into another nightmare of depravity and madness