They meet every week in the dingy back room of Mackey's Steak and Ale Tavern in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger turns to hate. The rejection turns to rage. And the Broken Hearts Club spins violently out of controlexploding into murderous acts of vengeance.
Named "the richest cop in New York" by the Daily News, a man both intense and chivalrous, Detective Voort is assigned the case, determined to catch an elusive killer who is always one death ahead ... who appears to switch identities with each new victim ... and who knows how to cover his tracks with cold efficiency.
Then Voort falls victim to his own broken heart - his growing anguish threatening to compromise the investigation - as his ex-girlfriend unknowingly becomes the target of a frightening new breed of serial terror.