Is it possible to be scared to death? FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender thinks so--when a man afraid of heights falls nineteen stories to his death and a woman terrified of blood is found with here wrists slashed. Could it be that the apparent suicides are actually the work of a twisted psychopath?

To stop him, Pender joins forces with Investigative Specialist Linds Abruzzi, and before long they find themselves facing their own worst terrors--and a madman who is as immune to fear as he is fascinated by it.