Alone ... Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold ... in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife & child. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react ... Alone ... twenty-five years ago, Catherine Rose Gagnon was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son's death ... and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Alone ... a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he'd done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous, filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance.