A teenager is found barely alive by the roadside, bleeding from her slit throat. The police can t even begin to imagine the horrors she has faced. For inside their house lies the girl's older sister: brutally tortured, raped and stabbed to death. As the girl struggles for survival, forensic scientist Anya Crichton is brought in to examine the evidence, all of which points towards a well-known family of career criminals. However, it soon becomes clear that they will stop at nothing to evade the law. Even if others have to die.'Kathryn Fox has created a forensic physician who readers of Patricia Cornwell will adore.' James Patterson