Each time he strikes, he takes two victims. He then sits back and waits for the first body to be discovered -- a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited . . . prey to a slow, agonizing, certain death. The clock ticked -- salvation was possible, but the police where never in time. As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have disappeared . . . and the clock is ticking. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy -- still trying to deal with the brutal deaths of her mother and sister six years earlier -- knows the killer's deadline can be met. But she'll have to break some rules to beat an exactingly vicious criminal at a game he's had time to perfect. For the Killing Hour has arrived.