"Be patient. Your time will come."

Ex-policewoman Cori O'Connor has seen the face of evil.

Once she brought the Sandman to justice ? a depraved serial killer who very nearly added Cori to his long list of victims. And the maniac still invades her dreams ... three years after his death.

Now the killings have begun again. Cori's most terrifying nightmare has become flesh ... and blood. For she is tortured by the possibility that the wrong man died for the Sandman's unspeakable crimes ? and haunted by the chilling certainty that the fiend is coming for her next.