Includes bibliographic references (pages [307]-318) and index.

Prologue - Flagstaff -- Chapter 1 - Midwest Gothic -- Chapter 2 - The Sleepwatcher -- Chapter 3 - Sterling Hall -- Chapter 4 - Postage Paid -- Chapter 5 - Permafrost -- Chapter 6 - The Vanishing Hitchhiker -- Chapter 7 - Deadfall -- Chapter 8 - Gate 4 -- Chapter 9 - Rural Route -- Chapter 10 - Scattered Ashes -- Epilogue: Saboteur.

In fall, 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the University of Wisconsin. The students in the hippie college town of Madison are letting down their hair - and their guards. But amid the peace rallies lurks a killer. When Christine's body is found, her murder sends shockwaves across college campuses, and the Age of Aquarious gives way to a decade of terror. Linda knows the killer, but when police ignore her pleas, he slips away. For the next forty years, Linda embarks on a cross-country quest to find him. When she discovers a book written by the murderer's mother, she learns Christine was not his first victim - or his last. The slaying continue, and a single perpetrator emerges: the Capital City Killer. As police focus on this new lead, Linda receives a disturbing note from the madman himself. Can she stop him before he kills again?