They were not raped. Not tortured. Not killed. Something far worse happened to them ...

Three women – all young, beautiful and full of joie de vivre – disappear without a trace. Just one week in the clutches of the psychopath the press calls the “Soul Breaker” is enough: when the women reappear, they are psychologically broken – as if buried alive inside their own bodies. Shortly before Christmas, the Soul Breaker becomes active again, of all places in a luxury psychiatric clinic. Doctors and patients are horrified to discover that the perpetrator was admitted without being recognised, just before a snowstorm completely cut the clinic off from the outside world. During the night of horror that follows, the Soul Breaker shows that there is no escape …

With psychological finesse and breathtaking suspense, Sebastian Fitzek leads his readers into the dark abysses of the human soul.