Kenneth Kyle, a police lieutenant in the Seattle Police Department, is assigned to work with Miss
Black, an attractive FBI trainee, for a one-month period. Impressed not only by her awesome beauty
but also her superior intelligence, Kyle soon makes a move, and they become romantically involved.
Even though Kyle is a lot older than the woman, they become passionate lovers. As they try to track
down an extremely brutal gang of sophisticated criminals, Kyle gradually discovers a darker side to
Miss Black’s mind. With a preference for devastating weapons, she seems to derive pleasure from
killing terrible thugs. The wild hunt takes the pair to Portland, Oregon, the center of the West Coast
nerd culture. Eventually, as they close in on their target in the dark and chilly October forests in the
Mount Hood wilderness, Kyle begins to suspect a connection between Miss Black’s disturbingly
enigmatic behavior and the case they are trying to solve…