For Ray O'Brien, a summer in London as part of his graduate studies in theater was a chance of a lifetime. The presence of a handsome Argentinean fellow student, Eduardo, promises to make it truly extraordinary. It had to be too good to last. When a string of savage, sadistic murders culminates in the bludgeoning death of another student two doors away and a strong line of circumstantial evidence leads directly to Eduardo, Ray's dream summer is suddenly transformed into a desperate struggle to untangle a web of secrets that masks the killer's true identity.