Christmas is just around the corner; the season of peace & goodwill. But this year for Detective Jack Paris the Christmas spirit is eclipsed by the hunt for a sadistic & twisted serial killer... When an accused murderer is acquitted on a technicality then found dead of an apparent suicide a spree of brutal murders terrorizes the citizens of Clevel&. This vicious & vengeful killer tortures his seemingly unrelated victims in unimaginably violent ways leaving them all with a strange symbol carved into their flesh. When Detective Paris discovers that these murders are the grim handiwork of one maniac obsessed with the dark side of the ancient religion Santeria hes pulled into a web of danger & sexual deviance. Jack must catch the killer before he kills again. But on Christmas Eve Jack finds himself right where the homicidal maniac wants him: questioning his loyalties facing an impossible choice with the barrel of a gun pointing at his temple & the whole world watching...