Time is running out for Dexter Cornell. He has just twenty-four hours to find out who poisoned him and why. In his bizarre and deadly search everyone has a secret and is a suspect, even the woman who loves him. When two neightboring couples grow too close, one of the husbands is lured into a shocking web of sexual obsession, betrayal and murder.

Fear in the night: A man suffering from a strange nightmare discovers he has been hypnotized into commiting a murder ; D.O.A.: Frank Bigelow, a real-estate salesman, is given a slow-acting, lethal poison. In the few hours left to him, he frantically seeks to learn who is responsible and why he was poisoned ; The hitch-hiker: While on their way to a fishing area, two men pick up a hitchhiker -- not knowing that he is a sadistic and psychopathic killer....