The writer becomes the story when crime reporter mia hale is discovered on a jacksonville beach, bloodied and disoriented, but alive. She remembers nothing, but her wounds bear the signature of a sadistic serial killer. ...The writer becomes the story when crime reporter mia hale is discovered on a jacksonville beach, bloodied and disoriented, but alive. She remembers nothing, but her wounds bear the signature of a sadistic serial killer. After years lying dormant, the collector has resumed his grim hobby: abducting women and taking gruesome souvenirs before dumping their bodies.