Sophia Reyes possesses rare mastery over forensic lip-pattern identification, yet administrative politics sideline her career into a dusty basement record room. Refusing to surrender her analytical craft, she sifts through abandoned homicide dossiers alongside a trusted archivist, seeking unexamined patterns among forgotten files.
Her meticulous inspection reveals concealed evidence connecting an infamous cold-case stabbing to a pattern of killings spaced precisely seven years apart. As Sophia closes in on laboratory director Victor Klaus, she risks state prosecution and lethal retaliation to expose the predatory monster masquerading as her department chief.
