Afinidad

Petra is a young woman who has lost her way. She has a strong sense of justice, of honor and fair play, but the experiences of her life have shown her that many other people do not. Badly disillusioned, she abandons those values but has nothing to replace them with. Nature doesn't like a void and Petra looks around for another belief system, this time one that will better reflect the reality of life.The setting is contemporary Savannah, America, and everyone is talking about the serial killer operating in the area. Petra's curiosity is aroused by the subject. Feeling bitter and hostile herself, she wonders what drives a man to commit the ultimate hostile act, murder. What would he be like to know, what would he be thinking? She feels a thrill at the thought of the release of passion inherent in such violence.And then, she gets to find out. She becomes the killer's sixth victim. Before he has a chance to kill her, however, he sees the interest in him that she cannot hide and, intrigued, he spares her life. Petra quickly feels an affinity with him, an emotion that the Spanish call afinidad.David is a killer made, not born, driven to desperation by a tyrannical mother and sister, but the thought of a companion pleases him and he plans to make Petra his accomplice. This would bind her to him in a conspiracy of silence, and he further hopes that she will share in the thrill of killing that has come, for him, to be an end in itself.Frank Hayward is the detective who is trying to stop the murders. For two years, there was no one to suspect until the sixth victim, Petra, survives. Then Frank wonders about the handsome young man who claims to have found her the night of the abduction and who hasn't left her side since.