against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom - and free will - of millions. Battling the mysterious epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed her husband has made Jane a wanted fugitive, hunted relentlessly by the secret cabal behind the plot. Jane will confront head-on the lethal forces arrayed against her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits when she descends the crooked staircase to the dark and dreadful place where her long nightmare was born.