The classic game of cat and mouse...or not. Nicolette is a woman of many skills. Her work with a blade has left many a man breathless. The 25-year-old beauty's mind is as twisted as the life that made her what she is. Her hatred for demoralizing, controlling and demeaning men is matched only by her longing to capture him...the one that got away. Her blade aches for the final cut... Countless nights, 27-year-old Anderson has tucked himself away in his Chicago studio...consumed with the idea that she might return to finish him. His life has dwindled to a pathetic existence of awaiting execution. Not all is as it seems... In the shade of deception and the cover of night, twisted secrets are reveled and Nicolette learns she isn't the only predator hunting within the shadows. Knives, sex, and two blood-lustful creatures of the night will have the people of Chicago closing their blinds each evening the second their streets succumb to shades...and shadows.