Murders and horrible crimes are being committed in a college town with such damning moral exactitude that they rob their victims of soul and body.

Meanwhile, a femme fatale seeks a part in the action by plugging herself into the local news scene and eventually finds that the Fable Killer is closer to home than she expected.

Detective Wright is a young unproven cop with a secret affiliation, who has to prove his worth the hard way, by infiltrating a dangerous subculture from the bottom up.