FBI medical examiner Dr Jessica Corans talents have been requested in Philadelphia in the wake of a series of bizarre murders attributed to the poet. Is calling card as a scroll of human parchment engraved with toxic first. For Jessica the most baffling aspect of the crimes is that no victim show signs of resistance or even fear. Only she has insight to read between one poet's lines. To decipher the meaning of his deranged work in progress, and to stop him before his final streak of insane genius.