A brutal mugging leaves Jeff Resnick with a skull fracture and the ability to sense others' emotions and glimpse fragments of future events. At first Jeff believes his graphic nightmares of a butchered buck are only a remnant of his traumatized mind, but soon facts that can't be explained by premonition come to light, and Jeff uses his skills as an insurance investigator to probe dangerous secrets surrounding the victim and touch his own traumatic past.
