While investigating an alleged death by lightning strike, a skeptical Kay Scarpetta receives threatening poems from a cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie, and Kay begins to suspect that he was involved in the suspicious death.

The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer.

Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless...

Discovering a row of pennies outside of her home just before receiving word that a neighbor has been murdered by a highly skilled sniper, Kay Scarpetta begins a nightmarish pursuit involving seemingly unrelated victims and a shipwreck off the coast of Florida.

In the aftermath of a sabotaged NASA rocket launch, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister, as well as the startling truth of who they really are, and now that a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, Calli embarks on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny.