Lena Adams and Will Trent are in Grant County, investigating a murder that was staged to look like a suicide. The body of a young man has been pulled from the lake. His suicide note has already been found. But the body shows signs of a struggle.

It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor--the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away ... and has vanished into thin air. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest and most high-profile athlete--a local hero protected by...

Sent to Macon for an undercover mission to infiltrate a drug and prostitution ring, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Will Trent hides the facts about his latest assignment from his girlfriend, Sara Linton, when the stakes prove higher than any he has yet encountered.

As Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent try to connect two murders to a hit-and-run victim, Atlanta physician Sara Linton becomes more involved in the investigation--an investigation which soon culminates in the hunt for a sadistic serial killer.

A victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods--then killed in a horrifying fashion. When medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman. And for Sara and Jeffrey, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and draw dozens of lives into the case.

"En una calurosa noche de verano, un científico de los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades es atrapado por asaltantes desconocidos en el estacionamiento de un centro comercial. Las autoridades están desesperadas por salvar al médico que desapareció en el aire. Un mes después, la serenidad de un el soleado domingo por la tarde se ve destrozado por el estallido de una explosión que sacudió el suelo, seguido de otros segundos más tarde. Uno...